Warren had insisted on the arrangement because he was often in surgery and traveled frequently.

The delivery slip was real.

The mail had reached the service.

The person who signed for it was not Warren.

It was an assistant named Elaine Marsh, who had worked for his mother, Margaret.

David located Elaine, now retired in Arizona.

She remembered a thick envelope from a law firm and instructions from Margaret to place “personal matrimonial correspondence” in a separate file.

She had not opened it and did not claim to know what it contained.