“You’re right.”

This time, she did not add anything after it.

Over the next several days, Martha worked with the bank on the disputed loan and the funds remaining in Greg’s account.

The bank checked its own file, the purported authorization, and the steps taken when the application had been approved.

Questions that could not be solved by our family talking at a table stayed with the people responsible for them.

What mattered for the proposed repayment was that Greg had put the cash into an account rather than spent every dollar.