Down the side, the names.

In the boxes: who was where, who had who, what time, and what had to be brought.

Odile started it at eleven years old, in pencil, on lined paper, in the fourth month after her mother left, and nobody asked her to.

I did not ask her to.

I want to be extremely clear about that because it is the only defense I have and it is worth about nothing.

I did not hand my eleven-year-old a clipboard.