Chapter Seven Summary

The next day Lily arrives at Deedra Dean's apartment on time. However, Deedra is still there and late for work. They discuss the murder, and Deedra reveals that she was at Pardon's apartment at 4:30 on the day of the murder. She knocked but there was no answer. The door was unlocked and she pushed it open, seeing Pardon asleep on the couch. She laid her rent check on the table and called to Pardon, but he didn't wake. She noticed that the place was in disarray, the couch pushed around, and the rug rumpled up. Lily tells her that he was probably dead. Lily wonders to herself that if O'Hagen was there at 2:30, saw Pardon's apartment in disarray but with no body, and Deedra saw it later with Pardon's dead body on the couch, where had the corpse been in between...