Summary

Grace unpacked her things and tried to sleep but found that she couldn’t. She decided to have something to eat. She went into the kitchen and noticed that the olive jar was a third full of water with the lid screwed on. She worried she was losing her mind. In the narration, Grace tells Maurice that the events she is about to describe might make him think that she has lost her mind.

Grace drove Christina’s car into the nearby town of Santa Gertrudis. She went into a grocery store. While chatting with the cashier, Rosella, she discovered that she knew Christina and that Christina had told her that Grace would be visiting the island. Rosella told Grace that Christina had a stall at the market where she did fortune telling. Rosella said that Christina had been married to...