My name is Victoria Winters. It seems like years since I came here to Collinwood, where the tension holds the flow of time. But the days have passed, and I'm no closer to the answers I'd hoped to find, answers which I feel are rooted within the paneled walls of this great mansion, and in the heart of the woman who never leaves its grounds.
Elizabeth says from Collinwood, Carolyn is the only one who has a chance of happiness in life; Joe starts drinking and getting morose when his boat buying partner's wife has a baby and the boat partnership deal falls through. He then goes to Collinwood and unloads what he has been holding in to Carolyn.