You can tell me as much or as little as you want.

If you tell me something and then you want to stop, we stop.

And nothing either of you says is going to get anybody in trouble, including you.”

There was a long silence.

Rosamund turned a sandwich over in the pan.

Then Lorelai said: “Can I get my book?”

“Of course.”

She came back with a purple spiral notebook with a cat on the cover, and Chadworth thought for one confused second that she wanted to read to him.