Summary

In Chapter 8, Wednesday is Hannah’s day off, but she cannot bring herself to start putting together baby furniture because she believes the act would be tempting fate.

Hannah leaves the house after she turns on the television to hear the reporter talking about Neville’s death. As she walks in the park, her mother calls to check on her. The call is dropped. Hannah answers her phone without thinking when it rings again. The caller is a reporter; Hannah hangs up on him.

In Chapter 9, set before April’s murder, Hannah asks for Neville’s help to find her tutor’s office. After her appointment with the professor, Horatio Myers, Hannah discovered Neville was waiting for her. He walked with her to the library, even though she insisted she did not need help. He shook her hand before she went inside, a...