“He was a candidate for suicide, Kay. I’m not saying he wasn’t murdered, but when he was at Harvard, he started having mood disturbances, became an outpatient atMcLean, was diagnosed as bipolar, which was controlled with lithium. As I say, he was well known atMcLean.”

“You don’t have to keep justifying that he was qualified and compassionate and not just a random referral.”

“He was more than qualified and certainly wasn’t a random referral.”

“We’re investigating his case, a very suspicious case,” she says again. “And Lucy can’t be honest enough to tell me the truth. How the hell can she be objective?”

Bentondrinks Scotch and stares into the fire, and the shadows from the flames play on his face.

“I’m not sure it’s relevant. His death has nothing to do with her, Kay.”

“And I’m not sure we know that,” she says.