Seven-year-olds cannot date things.

What she could do was attach them to other events — one was “after the leaves,” and one was “when Delilah had the boots that were too small” — and a detective and a mother with a calendar and a shoe receipt eventually placed both of them within a two-week window, and both of them fell on a Thursday.

The third was about Delilah.

Priya asked, at some point, why Delilah had not come to the desk with her, and Charlotte said, “She did.

She was there.”

And Priya said, “I mean why didn’t she tell the officer.”