She told me at twenty past five in the morning, while I was pressing my brother’s suit, that I was not invited to his wedding and would be working it instead. Black, nothing flashy, assist the coordinator, stay out of the photographs. Vivienne did not raise her voice, because to her it was ordinary. Later that day, carrying garment bags upstairs, I heard Roderick tell his lawyer that once the marriage was done the Vandermere firm would bring them into the downtown development, and that all they had to do was keep me away from them. The lawyer asked whether Julius knew who I was. My father laughed and said the girl knows her place.

At the rehearsal dinner in Clyde Hill I wore an earpiece and carried a notepad, and Isadora asked whether I was Sutton’s sister before Vivienne stepped in to explain that I was staff and that parties made me nervous.