She was quiet for a moment and then asked, ‘Are you trying to take the house away?’

‘No,’ I said.

‘I’m trying to find out what was taken from my account.’

She sighed.

‘Mom says Dad only borrowed it because the business was struggling.’

‘Then the records should show that,’ I answered.

I expected another argument.

Instead she said, ‘I found something else.’ She told me that after Daniel ended the engagement she had spent time alone in our parents’ house, opening drawers and wondering how much of the life she’d trusted was built on appearances.