That is where I was for eleven days.

The meeting on the Friday was Ilse Vandergraaf’s idea and it was not a negotiation.

It was what she called a disclosure meeting: both sides in a room, everything on the table, before anybody filed anything, on the theory that a couple who can do it this way will save their child about two years.

We went through the practical things for about fifty minutes.

Where Antonia would live.