Claire wrote the instruction on the inventory sheet and left it with the movers.

No one needed a legal argument to decide where a radio went.

The room was becoming empty without losing a wall.

Marjorie stood by the window with Julian’s framed photograph.

The ivory ribbon was still tied around it.

She kept the frame.

Claire had another print from the family collection, and we put that with the papers at home rather than quietly taking the object her mother held.

Before we left, Marjorie asked whether there was anything else Claire wanted to say.