“We have the times as well as we can establish them.”

“I mean the part before I came back.”

I knew what she meant.

“You gave us what you saw.”

“I wish I’d done more.”

I could not go back and give her a different afternoon.

I could thank her for returning, tell her why her observation mattered, and avoid making promises about what would have happened if she had acted sooner.

So I did.