My energy belonged to my son, who was healthy and laughing on the lawn, and to the hundreds of children whose lives were still waiting to be saved, and to the honest, patient work of a foundation that did a great deal of good in the world.

There was simply nothing left over for Julian and Victoria, and I was glad of it.

The law had done its work, cleanly and completely, and I did not need to do anything more.

Letting the courts hold the line, and turning back to the living, was the last and best thing Arthur ever taught me.

I have watched other people spend their whole lives feeding a grievance, tending it, keeping it warm, and I have watched what it does to them, how it hollows them out and steals the years they might have spent on better things.

I did not want that, and Arthur had shown me I did not have to have it.