I told myself at the time that she had enough.

I told myself it was cruel to repeat.

What it actually was, and what Evelyn said to me when I finally told her in a kitchen in November, is this.

She said: “You didn’t keep it from me.

You kept it from yourself for a bit longer, and I was the room you put it in.”

Part Six: What Happened to Boston

I told my mother to cancel a forty-million-dollar acquisition on a telephone at twenty past eight in the morning and I would like to report what the consequence of that was, because it is instructive and because it is nothing like what people expect.