Chapter Five “I came here to explain,” Mariel said, as she entered the studio office where her future brother-in-law worked and slept. She peered around at the lovely room. Though cluttered with files, papers, books and the remains of takeout food, beneath the mess was a quaint room with dark hardwoods and cream-colored walls, generously decorated with black and white prints of Jack at work. “Explain yourself? Why?” he asked her, as he watched her stroll around the room. “I should.” “You don’t have to explain anything to me. And I’m sorry for what I did. Too much drink in us both.” “And you couldn’t resist telling naughty stories.” “I think I was shocked on Gull Island… seeing the woman I’d so admired in that warehouse, now pretending to be someone that she wasn’t.” “Maybe I was p