She was almost disturbed at the feeling of satisfaction that had welled up inside of her after Dwight’s quasi-mysterious call.

She felt cruel for a moment.

Her eyes were red and watery, ready to spill over, when she realized that it was not, in fact, cruelty that had compelled her…but a desperate need to justify her actions.

It wasn’t that she needed Jim to understand that she was right (because she didn’t necessarily believe that she was), she just needed him to understand that she had not been wrong.

He needed to know the truth.

Every painful piece of it.