Pamela had come down the steps behind me.

She got to the front row and she said, not into any microphone, “Christopher, that is a completely one-sided account of a very complicated—”

“Did you tell her to stay in that room until it was over?”

The pause was about two seconds long and there were sixty-one people in it.

“I told her to give us the afternoon,” Pamela said.

And that was it.