Lindsay condoned her illness and claimed to believe her. Gomez too believed in the Presence: he believed it was the reflection of his wife’s estrangement from reality. It was not for nothing that she had called it "a mirror-colored thing..." Something that could not be pinned down, an incarnation of unverifiable fluidity...When Gomez got to the point where he himself could feel it, even sense it flickering at the corners of his vision, he knew things had gone too far. Their divorce had been amiable, full of cool politeness.