Not even anger, by then.

Mostly he felt the specific tiredness of a man looking at the wreckage of a decision he had made himself, with both eyes open, in a garden in September.

Rosamund was subpoenaed and prepared to testify and never had to.

She had spent three sessions with the prosecutor’s office being walked through her account and had done it, according to the ADA, better than most sworn officers.

Neither girl was ever put in front of anyone.