“I’m sixty-eight years old, Sarah.”

“I’ll ask him about it.”

“You do that.”

We had the surveys unrolled on the kitchen table by half past two, the corners weighted with a sugar bowl and two coffee mugs, when the back door opened without a knock.

Brandon came in with his keys and set them on the counter hard enough to skid.

“What is she doing with Dad’s papers?” he said.

Not to me.