According to the forgetting curve, she should have quickly forgotten the words she just memorized. In order not to waste her hard work, she should review them now, but the book is not at hand, so she can only rely on her memory. Normally, she wouldn't be able to recall many of the hundreds of words, but when they were strung together into a story—a gruesome one at that—she found it hard to forget. She felt that even without deliberately reviewing them, just thinking of the words "murder" and "buried alive" would conjure up vivid images of the story in her mind, and she would never forget it for the rest of her life. While working in the kitchen, Lilian mentally reviewed all the words she could remember before delivering breakfast to Parish. Because of Lilian 's vigilance and Parish's sh

