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On the day my best friend Helen finalized her divorce, I also filed for divorce from Edward Walker. He looked at me like a servant had just tried to fire her master. "Margaret, Helen has looks and skills. She can open a shop and make money on her own. What do you have?" Our son Daniel Walker leaned against the door, not even bothering to put down his backpack. "Mom, don't follow Aunt Helen's example. You're just a housewife who cooks and cleans. Without Dad, who would want you?" I looked at the father and son. suddenly felt like the past eighteen years were a pot of burnt porridge. No one would want it served to them. I turned around and called the number that had called me three times. "I agree to go." There was a pause on the other end. Then a low voice: "Ms. Lane, once you sign, for the next twenty years, you cannot reveal your identity, you cannot come home, you cannot explain your whereabouts to anyone." I said, "Okay."