Property was sold, recoverable funds were traced, and the firm passed into a history of claims and accounting instead of glittering annual dinners.

The sale photographs made the rooms look smaller than I remembered.

Without people arranging themselves around Victoria, the dining room was a table, chairs, and a silver cabinet.

I did not go to an auction.

Hannah did not want anything from the house.

Her lawyer arranged for personal property to be handled through the appropriate process.

Some things she asked to recover.

Others she left behind without making the decision into a declaration.