“Not unless you’d like to be named personally in what happens next.

This is a formal notice of a federal paternity establishment suit, and it is accompanied by filings alleging fraud and criminal coercion.

This woman is not being disturbed.

She is being served, and so, as of this moment, is Mr.

Vance.” The guards stopped where they stood, holding the papers, looking suddenly like men who very much wanted to be somewhere else.

There is a particular pleasure, I will admit, in watching the machinery of a powerful man’s protection fail him in real time.