The nights Roman said he was working.

The weekends he was traveling for the firm.

The money that vanished from our accounts that he told me I was imagining, or misremembering, or too anxious to understand.

For two years I had been made to feel that noticing these things was a symptom of my own instability.

And now a judge was confirming, item by documented item, that I had been right the entire time.

There is a particular vindication in that which is deeper than winning.