Bellweather recovered the rest of the money through civil judgments.

None of it was dramatic.

It was slow, and procedural, and documented, and it was, for exactly those reasons, absolutely final.

There was no version of it he could charm or shout his way out of, because I had built the whole thing out of the one material my husband had never learned to manipulate: verifiable fact.

I attended none of the criminal proceedings.

I want to note that, because people expect that I would have wanted to watch — to see Lucan brought low in a courtroom, to sit in the front row and let him see me there.