I knew that expression.

It was the look he wore when a storm had knocked out half the county and the repair crews were trying to decide what to fix first.

“Maybe we couldn’t,” he admitted.

“But we could have asked around.

We could have talked to her parents.

We could have gone to that school.

And we definitely could have told you not to take a bus alone to meet a stranger with a thousand dollars in cash.”

“I know.”