That, Sarah says, is what broke the spell.

That two-word sentence.

After that people started moving.

The babies started crying — the heat, the noise, all of it — and Evelyn Lawson put the microphone down on the podium, which Sarah says was the single most impressive thing she did all afternoon, and gestured to the family’s housekeeper.

“Take them inside, please, Rosalind.”

And then she said, to the lawn, without a microphone, in the voice of a woman who has been running rooms since 1974:

“Those children have done nothing.