Margaret sends him a card too.

The minister who had met Emily twice came to the sentencing, four years after a service he had been paid two hundred dollars for, and sat at the back, and left without speaking to anybody.

And on the second day of the trial, in a corridor, Emily’s college roommate Priya said something to Margaret that she has repeated to a great many people since.

Margaret had said — she was very tired, and it was the second day — that she kept thinking she should have known.

And Priya said: “You did know.

On day two.