The Standing She Did Not Know She Had

I did not have police officers waiting in the hallway.

That is not how it went, whatever Beau may have feared in that first hour.

What I had was Rosanna Aldworth, who arrived that afternoon in a plain suit with a second folder and sat down in the visitor’s chair as calmly as if she were reviewing a will, which in a sense she was.

She did not raise her voice.

She did not need to.