I slipped my wedding ring off my finger and laid it on the green desk pad.

Arthur capped the silver Parker pen and set it down next to the ring.

“Recorded copy goes to the county on Monday,” he said.

“The certified judgment follows in four to six weeks.

It doesn’t move any faster just because we want it to.”

“Four to six weeks.”

“That’s the court’s clock, not ours.” He squared the pages of the transfer agreement and slid them into a folder.

“Sign the last line one more time.