“Yes.”

“Do you think I — committed a murder?”

“I don’t know.”

“You think I may have?”

“Yes.”

“Is that what’s holding you back?”

“Is something holding me back?”

“Donald, I wish you wouldn’t do this for me.”

She was sitting at my feet now, her fingers interlaced across my knee. “I think you’re a very wonderful person.”

“I’m not.”