Vanessa tells her replacement, Emma, “I used to be you” (165). Richard hired Emma as his assistant, and in less than a year, he’d left Vanessa for her. Vanessa, who has rehearsed this moment every night, tells Emma that she will regret marrying Richard and he will hurt her. Emma was warned that Vanessa might try something like this, so she is stubborn and protective of Richard. Desperately, Vanessa brings up the cocktail party when the caterers were late. Emma was there, and Vanessa tells her that it was Richard’s fault that there wasn’t any Raveneau, because he didn’t order it. Emma, though, tells her it was delivered, and that she had placed the order. Though Vanessa yells that Richard blamed her, Emma dismisses her, jumping into a cab and leaving Vanessa on the curb. Alone, Vanessa begins to doubt her own perception of her marriage. She wonders if everything Richard said was true and, as always, if she is “crazy” like her mother, who had a lifelong battle with mental illness.

Vanessa remembers their honeymoon in Antigua and how nervous she was on the plane. Most of the honeymoon was romantic and dream-like, but the memory was tainted by a traumatic scuba diving expedition.