It was the hardest and most disciplined thing I did.

And I turned away, because I had promised my daughter, and because the truth had its own appointment to keep, and it was not yet time.

I noticed, as I walked back toward my seat, that Gregory would not quite meet my eyes.

Fifteen years earlier he had been all confidence, the wealthy man who had won, who had taken another man’s wife and shown her the life she deserved.

There had been no shame in him then.