He asked again, differently. He suggested that a woman who had been following her husband, photographing him, building a file, might keep such a thing because she intended to use it. He suggested she had wanted something to hold over him. He used the word *frame*, and he used it gently, the way he did everything.

Emily looked at him for a long moment.

Then she said, “I kept it because I thought I was dying.”

Nobody moved. Alan lowered his head. Barrett looked at the floor.

Even Daniel finally looked away.

Alan testified on the sixth day about the wounds. He was careful and he was clinical and he did not once look at Emily, and afterward he had to sit down in a hallway for a while.