Now we separated them.

She had seen a woman near the sedan before taking the photograph.

She had not seen that woman lift the box, open it, or put anything inside.

In the photograph itself, no face was clear enough to identify.

“When you first said you didn’t see the box, what did you mean?”

“I didn’t recognize it as a box.

There was a brown shape.

Later, looking at the picture, I could see it.”