At a board meeting, he stood beside a plain presentation slide instead of a grand portrait of Rosalind.

“The institution failed when it treated questions as disloyalty,” he said.

“We will not honor her by pretending the failure belonged only to somebody else.”

The foundation funded communication specialists, family education, and independent safeguarding reviews.

None of its brochures used Pearl’s face.

She was not a symbol to be displayed whenever donors arrived.

At home, the changes were wonderfully unremarkable.

Pearl complained about homework, argued about vegetables, and insisted on naming every fish in a tank we had bought for the sitting room.