She was going to place the physical, undeniable, dated evidence of the truth on a table and let it sit there, silent and unanswerable, next to the lie, and let a hundred and fifty people draw the obvious conclusion for themselves.

There is nothing an accomplished liar can do against that.

Laura could argue with a man.

She could not argue with fifteen years of her own returned mail.

Chapter 20 — If I May Say a Few Words

Before the scheduled toasts had quite finished, Laura rose from her seat and reached for the microphone at the head table, smiling toward Gregory as she did.

“If I may say a few words,” she announced brightly.