“Don’t.

Don’t make a spectacle of this.”

I looked at him, my father, who had changed the subject at every one of my triumphs and never once at one of Stephanie’s cruelties.

“You came here,” I said, “prepared to watch one.”

Chapter 10 — The Findings

Dean Harrow opened the envelope, and unfolded the page, and read it into the microphone, and his voice carried, clear and unhurried, into every corner of that enormous hall.