Grandma ignored her. “When I refused, Richard began telling people I was confused. Linda contacted my physician twice. Marcus — you sent me brochures for assisted-living communities and called them ‘options.'”

Marcus shifted. “Dad said you were forgetting things.”

Grandma held his gaze. “Did I forget your birthday?”

“No.”

“Did I forget paying your graduate-school loans after you promised to reimburse me?”

He stared at the floor.