FOUR YEARS LATER

She had been working for less than two hours and already she knew that it had been an error to come in. Not going to work, however, meant not getting paid, and that would be a catastrophe. She needed her job desperately and could not afford to lose it. The guilt of what she had done in the past bore down upon her, a constant presence. She had been laid up with a flu for nearly a week and was not only without income but dangerously low on funds. Still a little unsteady, she had pulled herself in to work that morning. But no sooner had she...