“You called your sister before you called your wife, or your daughter’s doctor, or your mother, or an ambulance,” I said.

“Why?”

And he looked at the table and said, “Because I needed to know what she’d said.”

That is the whole marriage.

Eleven days of lawyers and four months of investigation and fourteen months of process, and the entire thing is in that sentence.

He did not need to know whether his daughter was hurt.