Traub says was correct and which I did by instinct, and I said:

“No.

You asked a completely reasonable question and the reason everybody went quiet is that you were the only person in that room who had the sense to ask it.

“And I should never have taken you in there.

That was my mistake, not yours, and you were five, and I have been sorry about it since about four minutes after it happened.”

She thought about that for a while.