Not for weather, not for illness, not for a car that did not start, and there was a Saturday in the second winter when she took a bus.

The step-down came on Dr.

Prieto’s written recommendation in the fourth year and it was Wren’s decision as much as anybody’s, which is how Dr.

Prieto had built it from the beginning.

The arrangement now is that Simone gets one unsupervised day a month and two phone calls a week, and that Wren can end any of it, at any time, for any reason or none, by saying so to me or to Dr.

Prieto, and that if she does, nobody will ask her to justify it and nobody will be disappointed in her.