She asked whether I believed Harper pulled the chair intentionally.

“Yes,” I replied.

“I saw her hand on it before I fell.

She laughed afterward.”

Vega did not nod as if the matter were already proved.

She wrote down my answer and asked who else had been present.

I listed the guests, the caterers, our housekeeper Eliza, Brenda, and Wyatt.

The list felt like an indictment, even without any conclusion attached to it.