“No, I haven’t,” Jill Joseph answered. “It’s beginning to worry me. Have you?”
Vicki hesitated. “I’m still trying to get news of her. Tell me again—is her hair light brown or dark brown?”
“Light brown. Lucy calls it dirty blond.”
The alleged Lucy Rowe at the Bryants’ house had dark, sable-brown hair.
“Would Lucy color her hair, do you think?” Vicki asked.
“I can’t imagine why she would, its natural color is pretty. She never has tinted it.”
Vicki said she had an even stranger question, and asked Jill Joseph what her maiden name had been.
“Rossiter. Why, for goodness’ sake?”
“Do you know—or does Lucy know—anyone named Jill Baker?” Vicki asked.
“Never heard of Jill Baker. Vicki, all these questions—is something wrong?”