LENA

I was not trying to overhear him.

I want to be precise about this because the precision matters, because the specific and particular fact of how the overhearing happened was not the fact of a woman who had positioned herself to receive information she was not supposed to receive, not the deliberate and calculated act of a person who had decided that knowing was more important than the specific and honest cost of the way you came to know it. I was not listening at a door. I was not in the particular and practiced position of a woman who had learned, over a long accumulation of years in...