He was not afraid of being caught, because it had never once occurred to him that he could be.

And that ease told me something about my marriage that I have never been able to unlearn, and that reshaped how I understand people generally.

A person who is doing wrong and fears exposure is, at least, still connected to the moral world — the fear is a kind of tether, a sign that some part of them still knows the thing is wrong and dreads the consequences.

Solomon had no fear, and the absence of it revealed that he had no tether.