His name is Ben. I just called him a 'stranger' in the previous post. He is one of Lacey's friends. I deduced that he is Lacey's friend from Vassar but I was totally wrong; Lacey said she met him at Adelle's swimming lesson. Ben's daughter, Phoebe and Adelle are supposedly good friends as Ben and Lacey are.

He teaches at one public school in the city, I heard. Lacey told me to show him the blog, so I did. He liked it I guess. He was smiling. He could have been even laughing I thought if it were not his first time at Oakwood; laughing at the place one has never been to is quite weird indeed.