“Maybe it is.

But I was there, Gordon.

I heard him ask you to come sit with him.

I heard you say you had more important things to do.”

He lowered his eyes.

I wondered whether he remembered the same afternoon I did: Walter waiting by the window for a promised visit that never came.

The court declined to disturb the trust on the evidence presented.

There were still ordinary matters to settle about occupancy and closing, but the central allegation failed.