SANDRA Milano was not what Amelia expected.

She had expected a woman who would be defensive, filled with rage, trying to claw out her eyes and calling her a liar. She had expected the woman to deny everything, or be aggressive in a way that people were when they knew that something they had done was wrong as they tried to suppress their guilt. But looking at the woman who sat across her, she could detect none of that from the woman. Amelia suspected that she didn't even have an idea that Charles was engaged to another woman.

What she got instead of the rage, when she walked into the...