You have no right—”

“You are a woman,” I said, “who abandoned an eight-month-old and a nine-year-old for four hours, to be with a married man who explicitly texted you to leave them alone.

You coached your own daughter to lie to me about it.

Every minute of it is documented, on that phone, in his own words.” I looked at her steadily.

“So here is what is going to happen.

You are going to take your keys, and your bag, and you are going to walk out that door in the next two minutes.