I want to set that down before I describe it, because every single person I have told this story to has enjoyed that part, and two of them have told me it was brave, and it was not brave.

It was eleven months of damage done in about nine minutes because I could not wait.

She came into the office with a shopping bag and said, “Are you still sulking?

We need to talk like adults.”

And I turned the laptop round and said, “Sit down.”

She watched clip three with her hand over her mouth.

She watched clip four without moving at all.

And when clip six started and her own voice came out of the speakers saying Oscar, I’ve got the key, she looked away from the screen and at the wall, and she did not look back at it for the remaining eighty-seven seconds.