“What did you do to our daughter?”

She came into my hallway without being asked.

She was pointing at me — at me — and her voice was up in a register I’d never heard from her.

“She came home at four o’clock in the afternoon and she has not come out of that room in seventeen hours.

She’s hysterical, she won’t tell us what happened, she keeps saying she’s ruined everything—”

I did not say anything.