Ordinary household expenses.

Then, in the other version, ownership.

“Same stated date?” she asked.

“March ninth, 1998,” Daniel said.

I looked at Julian’s signature as reproduced on the pages.

Until then, I had been treating it as one fact: he signed.

Now I understood that a signature could not be read apart from the document, the pages presented, the authority claimed, and what happened afterward.

“The question isn’t whether his name appears,” Daniel said.