Not what happened, is she okay.

Why did you bring her back out here.

As though my daughter were a problem that had been correctly filed away and was now, inconveniently, unfiled.

I have replayed that question, why did you bring her back out here, more times than I can count, because in a strange way it did more to convict Brenda than any confession could have.

A woman who had simply, innocently, asked a child to wait somewhere quiet would have reacted to the sight of that child returning with, at most, mild surprise.