Not a question. The specific and particular statement of a man assessing, his eyes moving over her face with the quick and thorough attention of someone who needed specific information and was going to get it whether it was offered or not.

"I'm fine," she said. And then, because last night had happened and because she had decided, somewhere in the particular and specific arithmetic of the last twelve hours, that she was going to stop performing fine as a complete answer when it wasn't: "I'm angry. And I am, there is a particular and specific kind of exposure in having someone…" She paused. "The photograph is from the pharmacy....