Beatrice did not believe in confrontations. Confrontations were how clever people gave guilty people time to think. She believed instead in tables — in setting out, plainly, before witnesses, the things that were true, and letting the guilty party watch their own ground disappear. So she set a table. Literally. She invited Nan Tewkes to tea, and she invited Constable
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