“You could say it was mutual,” he said.

“We agree it’s over now.

That isn’t the same as agreeing why.”

He glanced at my ring.

“You don’t have to decide about that today.”

“I already have.”

I removed it and put it in a small envelope for the personal-property exchange Marjorie would help record.

I did not leave it on Elliott’s shirts or ask the boys to hand it to him.