He opened the door.

He did not say what you did was unforgivable. He did not say you told me you caught my wife with another man and that was a lie. He did not say you are not going to see them until you have apologised to her.

He said she’s asked you to go — which attributes the decision to me, and positions him as a man relaying a request rather than a man making one.

And then he held a door open and let silence do the rest.