As President Clinton testified before prosecutors, Ms Monica Lewinsky was nowhere in sight.
There was no sign of Ms Lewinsky outside her apartment at the Watergate complex in Washington. She was not seen outside the office of her lawyers. And there were no reports of her eating at any of the restaurants she has frequented in recent months.
In fact, family friends would not even confirm if the former White House intern, a native of California, was in Washington.
In Los Angeles, the lights were on late inside the Brentwood home of Ms Lewinsky's father, Dr Bernard Lewinsky.
When Ms Lewinsky testified before the grand jury, President Clinton was in plain view, attending a crime event in the Rose Garden at the White House.
Meanwhile, it was reported that Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton believed her husband did not have an affair with Ms Lewinsky until he finally confessed to her at the weekend.
Salon magazine, based on interviews with nearly two dozen Clinton confidants, reported that Mrs Clinton has long engaged in "self-delusion" about her husband's alleged affairs. When Mr Clinton lied to the country about Ms Lewinsky, he also was lying to his wife, the liberal Internet magazine reported. The magazine said last Friday's story in the New York Times reporting Mr Clinton would admit the affair was planted by aides trying to push him into confessing to his wife.
The Clintons, with daughter Chelsea, are today heading for Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. The New York Daily News reported yesterday that some of the President's advisers wanted him to cancel the trip but friends persuaded the first couple they need a tranquil haven for the next couple of weeks.
Ms Paula Jones, the woman whose sexual harassment lawsuit sparked the White House sex scandal, yesterday rejected the President's assertion that he never told anyone to lie about it. Mr Clinton's relationship with Ms Lewinsky first came to light during Ms Jones's lawsuit against him, which was dismissed in April.
Ms Jones is appealing the case and her lawyers said his admission of an improper relationship with Ms Lewinsky would prove that he lied under oath in the Jones case.