“Drinking.

Crying on the stairs.

You know how she gets.”

“She can’t drink on her medication, and she never could.

Two glasses in her whole life, and both of them were mine.”

“Then she was upset, and upset people fall.” Victoria squared the cup on the table until it sat exactly on its own ring.

“Three doctors have looked at her films since six this morning.

Not one of them says she fell.”