I heard this part clearly, because the attorney had stopped bothering to whisper, as though he wanted his client to feel the full weight of it.

“If we contest this,” the attorney said, “it goes to open court.

And if it goes to open court, then everything in the estate becomes potentially discoverable, including her personal papers.

Mr.

Vance, she kept journals.

Years of them.

I have been made aware that they contain detailed entries about the last fifteen years.

About the visits that never happened.