She told Sharon of the letter she'd had that morning from Craig.

He'd told Sharon that he would take her on one big last-night of having-an- expense-account dinner, and there was no excuse to miss it.

Hood had told Sharon what she'd wanted to hear, that they'd save Harleigh, even though he didn't entirely believe it.

"We thought," Jane Jiggs said, "that you might want to tell Sharon."

One brother tells Sharon that she acts detached from her own experience, as if it happened to someone else.

By the age of two she'd become a real martinet, a little stage director, telling Sharon where to stand, what to say, when to say it.

"Will you tell Sharon about me?"

Sam told Sharon about him being a widow, and they became close.

She told Sharon she was being held prisoner, that she was in a dangerous environment.

"We passed like them that dream," he tells Sharon.