Then she said, “Right — Manny,” and did a normal two minutes about her husband that was very funny, and then everybody had cake.

Maren Ostlund sat in the back left corner and did not move and did not speak and did not react, and Gideon Frayne put his hand over hers on the table and left it there, and she did not look at it.

They left at about eight-fifteen, before the dancing, without saying goodbye to anybody, which was correct.

In the car park she said one thing to my sister Ximena, who happened to be out there on the phone, and Ximena told me a week later.

She said: “She could have done anything to me in there.