The wife discovers Humbert (the pedophile's) journal that's all about her daughter, storms out of the house and gets hit by a car. Dies. This allows Humbert to take her daughter across the country to motels, while being paranoid of someone watching them. He settles at a place and sends lolita to school, but when she starts talking to other boys, Humbert lashes out at her and gets jealous. Eventually they hit the road again and she gets sick. Humbert drops her off at a hospital, comes back and she's gone. A nurse says her uncle took her. Humbert spends years looking for lolita, one day he gets a letter from her, stating she was married, pregnant and needs money. Humbert rushes over there, and she was taken by a man named Clare Quilty who happened to actually be stalking them on the road. Quilty and Humbert are very alike, despite Humbert's portrayal of his relationship with the girl as romantic he also kidnapped her just like Quilty. Humbert begs her to leave her husband, and she refuses. He desperately gives her money, kills her husband, gets thrown in the psych ward and prison, and writes the memoir.