On my wedding night I hid under the bed to surprise my husband. His mother came in instead, sat down on the mattress above me, and put a call on speaker.

I am divorced. There is a separate matter about the estate that is ongoing and that is hers, not mine, and I am a witness in it and nothing else.

The apartment on the coast is mine and I have sold it, because I could not walk into that kitchen.

Lorna has not spoken to me since the February, which is a relief, and she has told several people that I recorded a private conversation in her family home, which is true.

Grayson wrote to me once. It is two pages and the word overreacted is in it twice.

His sister and I speak most weeks. We are not friends exactly. We are something that does not have a word, which is two people who were both told the same thing about each other by the same two people.

She has told me she nearly did not say it, that night by the coats. That she had decided about four times not to.

She has also told me what she expected to happen when she did.

She expected me to laugh. She had already priced that in.

What she did not expect was that I would be kind about it. She said that was the thing that finished her — that I put my hand on her arm and said something reassuring, and that she knew in that second I was going to repeat it to him, because that is what somebody does when they think they are managing an awkward person.