“You said he’s always alone.”
     “Yes. I meant whenever he gives nike jordan heels his performance ticket to a guest.” An obliging hostess, she lifted the pot to pour more tea into Peabody’s cup. “I’ve occasionally seen other men in his box. In fact, there was a guest in his seat at the opening of Rigoletto last week.”
     “Can you describe him?”
     “Ah, black and white. That’s how I thought of him, cheap louis vuitton bags actually. Black-tie—very formal—white hair, white skin. I remember wondering if he might be a relation of Mr. Pierpont. There was a resemblance, or it seemed to me there was. I didn’t see him before or after the performance, or at intermission. Or I didn’t notice.”
     “Can you dig up the names of those who have been in louis vuitton outlet the same box with Pierpont?”
     “There never is anyone when Pierpont or one of his guests attend.” Jessica smiled as she held out the plate of cookies. “That’s rather odd, isn’t it?”
     B uys up the other tickets in the box,” Eve said when they were in the car. “Doesn’t want anyone else nearby, disturbing him, or getting jordan heels too close.”
     “We’ll stake out the opera.” Peabody pulled out her book to key in some notes. “Maybe he’ll need another fix.”
     “Yeah, we’ll set that up. His stepmother. That’s who the women represent. That’s whose picture he carries in his wallet. Idealizes and demonizes her at the same time.”
     “You sound like Mira.”
     “It’s what plays. He kills her, nike jordan heels again and again—probably re-creating her actual death. Then he washes her, lays her on white linen. Her time ran out, so he sees that time runs out for the ones he picks to represent her. That’s the core of it, with the cross in the Urbans. She clocked out in the Urbans, and I’m betting on chanel online store usa the date he’s used for his fake wife in the Pierpont data.”
     “The wife thing—the wedding band. His stepmother, but also his fantasy woman,” Peabody theorized. “His bride. He doesn’t rape her, that would shatter the fantasy. Not sexual, but romantic. Pathologically romantic.”