But Marisol was not angry at Gwendolyn’s ignorance.

Ignorance can be corrected with a document, as it had been, in one evening.

What could not be corrected with a document was the thing the text refused to name: that the one person in the house who had known the truth, completely, the entire time, had chosen, every single day for two years, to let the lie stand because the lie was comfortable for him.

She did not reply again.