Damon blamed me.

Of course he did.

He called, and when I didn’t answer he had his mother call, and the message was the same underneath the words: that I had done this to him, that my jealousy or my coldness or my sudden ruthlessness had destroyed a good man’s life.

I let the documents answer.

That was the whole of my strategy, in the end, and it is the only strategy I have ever fully trusted.

I did not argue with him.