“We don’t know,” she said.

“And we shouldn’t pretend we do.

People sometimes choose silence even when they suspect something is wrong.”

The distinction mattered to me.

Lorraine might have controlled the mail, but Graham had chosen not to make a telephone call.

Callum might not have seen the documents, but he had chosen not to investigate when I first said we had a child coming.

Responsibility did not vanish because someone else added another layer of secrecy.