“Well, Alexander — we were all tricked by Maya, weren’t we, all of us, so really none of us—”

“No,” I said, and I said it hard enough to stop her.

“Lucy tried to speak to every single person in this room three years ago.

She called you.

She came to your doors.

And every one of you closed those doors in her face, because believing a scandal was easier than making room for a doubt.

I am not going to stand here and let us all agree that we were victims too.

We were not the victims.