Bernadette did exactly that for nineteen months.

She did not open a single one.

That is established and I believe it.

She wrote NOT AT THIS ADDRESS on the front of nine envelopes, in green marker, with a ruler under the line, because she is that kind of woman, and she put them in the out tray.

She was not paid anything.

She was not threatened.

She was asked by the seventy-something mother of her employer, whom she had known for fourteen years, to protect him.

When Peter Nadeau’s people interviewed her in the October, she answered every question in forty minutes without a lawyer and then asked whether she was going to go to prison, and then was sick in a bathroom down the hall.