I will admit I thought you were pretending to have amnesia.” “Why would I do that?” “To get out of trouble. To avoid your involvement in a theft of property. To pretend you didn’t know what had happened. To get me to forgive you, once again. Who knows?” “Do you still think I’m pretending?” “Let’s say I still have doubts about your truthfulness, but if you’re acting, you’re doing a darn good job of it.” “I’m not pretending. I really don’t remember anything before waking up in that park.” “I want to believe you. The question now is what happened to cause you to lose your memory? It must have been pretty traumatic.” “I wish I knew. If I knew what happened, maybe the rest of it would come back.” She thought about all she had discovered so far that day. It was more than she had learned the whole prior week.
