I do not think she did it consciously.

I think thirty-six years of practice produced a sentence that protected her, automatically, the way a good driver’s foot finds the brake.

Before I left she said one more thing and it is the only time I ever saw her look her age.

She said: “Mr.

Carrasco.

If anything ever changes — if you are ever asked to do something that you would not want to write down — you do not come to me.

You get your own lawyer.