She addressed the court.

She said that her daughter had designed two schools that four hundred children walked into every day, and that she had a laugh you could hear across a restaurant, and that she had been afraid enough of the man she married to hide a telephone in a shoebox and had still been too proud, or too ashamed, or too much her mother’s daughter to make a phone call.

And she said one more thing, which the local paper printed and which has since been quoted at two conferences she was not invited to.

“He didn’t kill her because he was angry.

He killed her because she was worth more to him dead than alive, and he did the arithmetic and he was right.

I want that on the record, because there are men doing that arithmetic tonight.”