When Daniel asked her whether I had planned the objects, she told him Elliot had gathered the memories and I had approved the delivery.

“She could have stopped it,” he said.

“Yes,” Marjorie answered.

“She checked it and made her decision.

Don’t put all of it on a boy.”

He said people changed what they could carry.

She said the boys needed him to tell them about his choices without describing their needs as the cause of his disappearance.

Neither sentence resolved the argument.