He read it once more.

“So when the house was empty,” he said, “she knew it was empty.

She knew nobody was going to come knocking.”

“Nobody except a six-year-old with a phone.”

He gave the tablet back with both hands, which caught me off guard.

“I gave her eleven hundred dollars for a dress in Gustavia,” he said.

“She paid for the suite.

I figured she had money of her own.