While on his honeymoon, Thomas receives a call from his brother, who tells him that Thomas's new wife has stolen money from her bridesmaids. She had charged her bridesmaids $500 for their dresses, only for his brother's wife to discover that the dresses only cost $250. Thomas reflects on his wife's bizarre behavior—how she always shows up late for things with crazy excuses, an incident in which she didn't tip at a restaurant and pretended she thought he had, the handicapped sticker she has on her car, and the library books that she has taken for her own. He had always assumed that he knew she was lying, but now he wonders if she thought that her lies were convincing. Thomas brainstorms ways to explain the incident, and, with his lawyer's salary, pays the difference to the people his wife conned. He also decides to pay them extra, on the condition that they never mention it to his wife. He thinks about how this will be the rest of his life—covering for her mistakes, taking the blame himself, making sure she never knows that he sees through her lies. He sits in the hotel room, wondering where she is, as she had headed to the grocery store but has been gone a long time.