The Last Thing He Told Me

In this brief scene, Hannah remembers the time immediately following her wedding to Owen when the two sat in a restaurant, basking in the afterglow of their wedding celebration. As they reminisced about their first few dates, Owen told Hannah he asked a lot of questions about her because “I felt like I needed to learn about the could-have-been boys […] ” (184).

Hannah remembers the love she felt for Owen, and tries to capture the feeling, saying it felt like “finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you’d never before been” (185).

Hannah and Bailey go to the UT library to search the yearbooks and try to match a photo to one of the names on the roster from Professor Cookman. While there, Jules calls. In response to Hannah’s texted request, Jules has gone to Bailey’s room on the houseboat and is looking at the piggy bank. ”And you were right,” Jules says. “It does say Lady Paul on the side” (188). Hannah suspects that the piggy bank, which Jules cannot open, contains a clue that will explain why Owen’s will includes the annotation “L.