You only had to make her incredible.

A few compliant doctors, a diagnosis, a file that grew a little thicker each year, and the most dangerous witness against you became the least believable person in any room — and better still, her very insistence on the truth became a documented symptom of her illness.

He had turned his daughter’s honesty into evidence of her madness.

It was, he genuinely believed, the most efficient thing he had ever done.

It did not once occur to him, convening his board with his forged logs and his bought physicians, that the woman he had spent ten years making unbelievable had spent those same ten years quietly assembling the one thing that would make her impossible to disbelieve.

Chapter 11 — The Emergency Board Meeting