“I know.”
“Well, anyway, I got acquainted with her. I found out she was running away from something, too. She hadn’t had as much of a success at it as I’d had, so I offered to take over her identity for a while and let her really disappear.”
I said, “I’m anxious to get that straight, Rob. Did you make the offer to her? ”
She thought for a moment and said, “Well, she paved the way for it. I guess it was her idea.”
“You’re certain?”
“Definitely, yes. Can I have another drink, Donald? You’ve made me get cold sober, talking about this thing. I didn’t want to get sober tonight. I wanted to ring doorbells and have some fun.”
I said, “There’s a little more I want you to tell me first, little details about, for instance, when you first heard about Nostrander’s death.”
She said, “Put yourself in my position. One murder had been committed over me already. I was trying to dodge notoriety. Well, when this thing happened, I–I just acted on instinct. I wanted to run away from it.”
“Not good enough, Rob,” I told her.
“What isn’t good enough?”