Come anyway.

I read that at a kitchen table and I put my head down on my arms.

Because I know what you’re going to tell me meant she had done the work.

And come anyway meant she had understood, inside six days, entirely alone, with no help from anybody, that the thing she needed was not the information.

Part Twenty-One: Foxglove

She was already there when I arrived, twenty minutes early, at a table at the back, with a folder in front of her and a coffee she had not touched.