And then — and Dr.

Alvear was careful about this, and asked it three different ways over two sessions — Emily had said one more thing.

She had said: “Don’t tell Daddy I was looking.”

Sophie did not tell anyone.

She was seven, and her mother had asked her not to, and children keep those.

Four days later her mother was dead, and two days after that she was sitting in the second row of a chapel looking at a casket, and her mother was wearing a dress with a collar up to her jaw.