“It’s the whole thing,” he said. “Him. Her. The door. Everything.”

“Is Phoebe on it?”

“Yes.”

I want to record exactly what I said, because I have had a long time to think about it and there is no version where I did not say it.

I said, “Good.”

Arthur released it through three intermediaries that night. I did not ask how and I did not ask what would be cut and I did not listen to it before it went out.