“Mr. Vance,” she said, “before this litigation began, did you know Mrs. Bellamy’s name?”

“I’m sure I did at some point.”

“Do you know it now?”

He glanced at his file. He actually glanced at his file. “Audrey,” he said.

“Her last name.”

He didn’t have it. Twelve seconds — the reporter’s transcript says twelve seconds, I’ve read it maybe forty times — and then his lawyer said the name for him, and Kit said, mildly, that she’d like the record to reflect who had answered.