And I’d probably have been fired and I would have been right.”

We went round it for about twenty minutes and neither of us moved the other one.

I want to record where I have ended up, because I have had two more years on it than she has.

She is wrong, and I understand why she cannot be talked out of it.

A twenty-nine-year-old nurse, four days into a family’s catastrophe, with a suspicion and no evidence, in front of a husband, on a floor that was not hers, said the only sentence that was available to her and it worked.

It took eleven months and it worked and there is no version where the braver sentence lands better, because the braver sentence gets her removed from the room and the box goes home in a bag anyway.