The answer was not shouted.

Nobody needed it to be.

It meant my promise to Caleb at the school entrance was being treated as an arrangement I should reconsider for the wedding.

Marjorie explained the current order when a relative asked what it permitted.

She showed the relevant portion without circulating all the private details in the file.

“The court approved her appointment on November 18.

A marriage cancellation doesn’t itself change that.