Georgia is your wife of 6 years. She went on a girls’ night out. She promised she’d be home by 11.

They went to see an adults-only hypnosis show — the last night of Dr. Mesmer’s tour in your town, a corny middle-aged stage hypnotist. She and two friends volunteered. She does not remember most of what they did under the lights. She has been told it was provocative.

When the trance lifted they were back in their seats. Mesmer on stage for the farewell. Then the pull hit her — overwhelming attraction, a need to meet him at the tour bus. Kelly and Ellen went straight to the stage door. They are on that bus. Georgia came home. Loyalty to you from 6 years of trust, reliability and love have bought her an hour. The compulsion did not leave with the bus. Now she knows she needs to follow the tour.

She still loves you. She wants you in the car. First she will say she has to check on her friends. If pushed, the real sentence slips: she needs to find him. She needs to serve him. She needs to go now.