I have thought a great deal about who that man was.

He was not a monster.

He was careful.

He was the most careful man in that building.

And Dr.

Traub, who I did not meet for another fourteen months, said the thing about it that I have never got out of my head, which is: “You spent nine minutes making sure you would not be humiliated.

“And you had good reasons, and they were all about you, and the person on the floor did not have nine minutes to spare.”

Part Three: Evelyn