It means: you may answer if somebody makes you.

It means you may not pick up a telephone.

And by the thirty-first of October I had already picked up the telephone, and the review was already open, and the letter was not asking me to undo that, because Hollis Trager is a competent lawyer and knew he could not ask for that and did not.

The letter was asking for what came next.

Part Seventeen: What I Did Not Sign

Estelle Baptiste is fifty-four and has practised family law in Duval County for twenty-six years and she is not a romantic about any of it.