Corinne had, over about eight months, become the person who called the school.

Nell had a documented stomach thing — a real one, mild, that she had been seen for — and there is a phone number, and a woman who says this is Nell Brannock’s grandmother, she’s had a bad night. Six occasions in fourteen months.

Two of them Toni knew about.

Four of them nobody did.

The school did nothing wrong.

Corinne was on the authorized list.

I had put her on it myself.