He looked at the lawyer, then back at me.

“We can explain everything we know,” he said.

“You don’t need to absorb it here.”

“Why today?”

“The confirmation reached us this morning.

We learned where you were through the representative coordinating contact with your lawyer.”

My attorney confirmed that someone had contacted her office.

She had been verifying the information while preparing for the hearing and had not wanted to raise a possibility she could not yet support.