I stared at the broken old man in total silence.

“I’d sit alone in my parked car and think to myself, what could I possibly say to her?” Arthur explained.

“Should I say, ‘Hello, I’m the monster who didn’t open the front door for your parents’?”

“You should have said, ‘Hello, I’m your grandfather,’” I told him firmly.

“I simply couldn’t bring myself to do it,” Arthur whispered.

“Then why send your driver Frank running after Natalie at the store yesterday?” I questioned him.

“I knew she was trying to bring Mom’s ring to you,” Arthur said.