“So you wrote down that my baby never drew a breath,” I said.

“The clinic in Houston supplied the blank medical forms,” Arthur said.

“I filled them out on a manual typewriter at my own dining room table.

I filed them with the county clerk under a closed, permanent seal.

I signed as the attending physician.”

“You put your name to a terrible lie,” I said.

“I saved Evelyn from an enormous public scandal,” Arthur said.

“She paid me very well to make sure the paperwork was completely, legally, permanently airtight.”