That is the mechanism and it is not dramatic and it is available to absolutely anybody.

You do not have to lie to somebody.

You have to let them build a wrong thing out of true materials, and then not mention it, and then keep not mentioning it, and after a while the not-mentioning becomes its own structure and you could not dismantle it if you wanted to.

Here is who knew.

My husband, Davis Renfrew, thirty-five.

My mother-in-law, Lorna Renfrew, sixty-four.