“How long?”

“About a week.”

“And then?”

“She walked out and never came back, just disappeared into thin air.”

“Didn’t take her baggage?” Hale asked.

“No.”

“Just a week,” he said. “I can’t believe it.”

Bertha said, “I’ve got a date with a bathtub. You haven’t had breakfast, have you, lover?”

I said, “No.”

“You look like the wrath of God.”