People assume she is not in there.

She is entirely in there.

It is, I have come to believe, a more complete punishment than any court could have designed, and I take no satisfaction in it whatsoever, and I did not expect that.

Noah wanted to ask her something.

He asked me first whether it was cruel, which is a thing a thirteen-year-old should not have to weigh, and I said I didn’t know, and that he was allowed to want it anyway.

He went in on a Tuesday and Chloe and I stayed in the doorway.