That is the whole intervention.

I fixed it for her at the table, quietly, in a way that meant nobody had to be uncomfortable, and I did not say one word to the woman who had said it, and the meal continued.

Afterward, in our room, I said to Mitchell: “She has to stop calling her that.”

And Mitchell, taking his watch off, said: “Val.

She’s three.

She’s not going to remember any of this.”