Summary

In Chapter 22, the first chapter of the section titled Rule Three: Don't Get Caught, Isa pushes Freya's stroller to Salten Village, though it is several miles from the Tide Mill. She hates all the nets draped around town as a symbol of being trapped, though she recognizes them as a nod to the tourist trade. She goes to the post office where she withdraws money from an ATM. A woman named Mary Wren greets Isa. Isa continues to use Kate's lie that she is in town for the event at Salten House. Mary says that Kate remains secluded from the villagers while Ambrose had often spent time in the village. Her son is Mark Wren, a police officer. Mary says Mark still lives at home. Mary recounts that Thea had claimed her father murdered her mother. Mary believed it at first. She laughs...