She wore a small gold cross and she looked at the back of his head.

They have not spoken since the day of the funeral.

She is Sophie’s grandmother.

She has written twice, both times asking to see her, and both times Margaret handed the letter to Dr.

Alvear and then to Sophie’s attorney, and both times the answer was no, because Diane Brooks had said, in a deposition, under oath, that Emily Brooks had been “unstable” and had “provoked” her husband, and there was no version of that woman being in a room with a nine-year-old.

Sophie will decide about her grandmother at eighteen.