“How bad,” he said.

“There’s nothing in there about her putting hands on them, before today,” Rosamund said.

“I want to say that first, clearly, because it’s true and because you’re going to imagine worse.

It was words.

It was constant, and it was targeted, and she was very good at it — she never said anything that couldn’t be explained as discipline if anyone repeated it.

She’d tell Gemma she was being a baby and then buy her a dress.