“I had every legal right,” I replied, and my voice did not rise, because it did not need to.

“I owned the house.

I sold the house.

That is a thing an owner is permitted to do.

What you didn’t have,” I said, “was the right to lock your wife and your three-day-old daughter outside in the rain, change the code while I was in a hospital bed, fly to Maui, and tell me to figure something out.

You want to talk about who had no right, Ethan?

Let’s talk about it.