Sabina had been standing in the middle of her own destruction for ninety seconds, and now she moved, and she made the last mistake available to her: she came forward and put her hand on his shoulder.

“Chadworth, my love, listen to me.

You’ve walked in on the end of something and you don’t have the context.

This woman has been undermining me from the day I arrived.

She has the girls completely turned around.

I was trying to correct their behavior and she laid hands on me — she physically laid hands on me — I have been trying for months to bring some structure into this house and every time I—”

He stood up.