He told them he’d talked to Rachel at the Metropole and it had sounded as if she’d collapsed at the news. After failed attempts all afternoon and evening to contact Rachel, and when Janet called telling them she didn’t show up in Paris as planned, Paul spoke to the hotel and learned that Rachel hadn’t checked out. He told them to go into her room to see if she was there, that he would wait on the phone. Five minutes later they told him they had found her unconscious on the floor, an empty prescription bottle of anti-depressants on the floor beside her, and they had called an ambulance. He left immediately for Brussels. When he arrived at the hotel, the manager said she’d been taken to Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, a local hospital. Paul couldn’t believe Rachel would have tried to take her own life. Of all people, not Rachel. He broke down in front of the hotel staff. They ushered him to an office till he was able to get control of himself. Her things were still in her room, they told him.
