“Do you want an answer that makes you comfortable, or one that might help?”

“The second.”

She told him about last-minute schedule changes, intrusive searches of staff lockers, and unpaid errands carried out because nobody dared disappoint his mother.

She reminded him of three occasions when she had raised concerns and he had answered that Margaret merely liked everything done correctly.

“I don’t remember all of that,” Adam admitted.

“The people affected remember,” Rosa replied.

He felt the sting of her words.