Stacy Talks to Ted

"Thank you!" Stacy said with emphasis, as he left the room. She turned back to Ted. "Now, Ted, to humour me, could you pretend that I've got amnesia, and tell me from the beginning what it is that you want to spologise about. Please don't be embarrassed. I think I'm fairly unshockable." Though given my loss of memory, my unshockability is more of an article of faith than anything else, she thought to herself.

Ted looked as if he wished that the Earth would swallow him up. Stacy couldn't help respecting someone who was willing to put himself through such agonies for the sake of making an apology. Then he seemed to pick up on something. "Pretend that you've got amnesia?" he said slowly. "That's not a pretence, is it? You've had another attack, haven't you?"

"Another attack?"

"Yes. I found out about your amnesia this afternoon, when you caught Chris and me together in the storeroom. [11597-11890] You didn't recognise me. In fact you didn't even recognise Chris. Chris said that a top neurosurgeon had told you that the amnesia could strike again at any time."

That ties in with what Chris told me just now, Stacy thought. Was it just that Chris didn't want me to find out about what he and Ted had been up to that made him act so strangely? I've got this feeling that it's something more than that, though. Why was he so desperate that we should get married so quickly?

She asked Ted: "So I caught you and Chris in the act, did I?"

Ted nodded. But before he could say any more:

1. Chris came in with two mugs of tea. "I decided I'd make some tea, anyway," he said, handing one mug to Stacy and the other to Ted. "It'll make you both feel better."
2. They heard a door slam. It sounded as though Chris had left the apartment.
3. Chris came in, a gun in his hand.
4. The phone rang.

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