Chapter 23 Summary

Connie is gone for a long time but returns with a book in her hand and tells Archer that she settled William down with a tranquilizer. Connie speaks frankly with Archer telling him about William's humble beginnings in the oil business. She then comments that she thinks that Laurel is a schizoid personality but that the family treats her as being perfectly normal. Archer asks if Connie is a psychiatrist but she says that she isn't one, just someone who has known Laurel for a long time. Connie used to teach at River Valley School and has known Laurel since the girl was eleven years old.

The book Connie has brought to show Archer is the River Valley yearbook and she opens it to the picture of Harold Sherry, the young man Laurel ran off to Las Vegas with when she was fifteen...