"I was collecting samples from my water traps at the lake side. He was watching me from the shore. Felt like I was being hunted somehow. So I tried to engage him. Invited him over to look at what I was finding. Started lecturing him about fish or something. I asked if he'd ever used a microscope. He made some crack about 'oh yes of course, right after piano lessons and before ballet'. I said, I took him more as a violinist and a swordsman."

"That's when he told me about Doris and Gerald." Her voice conveys how even recalling the story makes her heart ache.