You can let a man be decent.

It doesn’t cost you anything.”

Nita said yes, eventually, with two conditions: that it come out of the trust and not out of me personally, and that she be allowed to pay it back if she ever wants to.

Wren wrote her a letter when her fingers could hold a pen properly, which was about eleven weeks in.

She was ten by then.

She wrote it herself and sealed it herself and I never asked what was in it, and I never will.