Keller listened to the whole thing with his hands in his jacket pockets and then he said: “Oh, son.”

And then he said, to me: “Sarah, I’ll bring it back Tuesday.

He’s a minor.

I don’t need a lawyer to tell me I can’t hold a thirteen-year-old to a sale.”

And he was right, which I did not know at the time and which is worth putting down, because a great many people do not know it: a contract made by a child is generally voidable at the child’s election.

Julian could have disaffirmed that sale.