“Hello, Reacher,” she said, and smiled.
“The injuries?” I said. “Sounded pretty unpleasant.”
“Why can’t you tell anybody?” I asked him.
“Maybe,” I said. “Why don’t you just call it up and see who answers?”
“Because he’s dead,” I said. “I’m very sorry.”
She was inside, flustered, chattering away like a kid going on vacation. Making lists out loud. Some kind of a mechanism to burn off the panic she was feeling. On Friday she’d been a rich idle woman married to a banker. Now on Monday a stranger who said the banker was dead was telling her to hurry up and run for her life.