I have thought about that for a long time and I have decided that she is being generous and also that she is not wrong, and that the reason it is worth writing down is that it is a nine-year-old identifying, correctly, that a disclosure requires two people.

She is fourteen now.

Evelyn sends a card at Christmas with about four lines in it.

Charlotte plays goalkeeper, badly and with enormous commitment.

Delilah does something with a clarinet.

They are, according to their mother, entirely ordinary and infuriating teenagers who leave things on the stairs.