His yearning for her body felt the same as his yearning for freedom.
“Now will you make an insanity plea?” Ram had asked him, after delivering the news about Kate.
“She’s always been very secretive. She must have run away. I can’t even be sure that Kate Miller was her real name. It’s beginning to seem normal to me when things don’t make sense.”
“She never lived where you said she lived, and she never went to the university you said she went to. She can be part of your insanity plea. You can tell the jury you were visiting your mother’s ghost.”
part “I’m sorry. I know I’m not insane, which means that if I plead insanity, I’ll only be doing it to avoid taking responsibility for what I’ve done.”
“What’s wrong with that? It’s what everyone does.” Beads of sweat swung from the bottom creas
