She had dimples when she smiled, but she cultivated the conservative look of someone dedicated to a life behind the scenes, with a medium build, gray-blue eyes, and natural hair she called dishwater blond. It was the first time she had ever been called before a jury, and she was nervous about going onstage. Schafer, by contrast, was a frustrated actor who loved the sanctioned confrontation of the courtroom; it was practically the reason he had gone to law school.

