Whatever else — whatever I did — that part was real, you know that part was real—”

“Take her out of my house,” he said.

They walked her out.

She was not handcuffed in the living room; the deputies did that at the car, out of view, which Barnaby had quietly requested for reasons that had nothing to do with Sabina Vance and everything to do with two children in a kitchen thirty feet away.

She said several more things on the way to the front door.

One of them was about Rosamund.