He remembered it exactly.

He had written it on a phone in the back of a car outside a construction trailer, in ninety seconds, between two calls.

He remembered thinking that it was well handled — firm, warm, a little pointed.

He had felt, if anything, mildly irritated that the housekeeper was getting territorial, exactly as Sabina had predicted she would.

He had read the email.

He had understood every word of it.