Some provisions were clarified, some assets were divided, and both sides signed an agreement resolving their competing claims.

I do not know every term.

They were Evelyn’s to keep private, and she did.

What mattered to me was the afternoon she phoned to say, “It’s finally finished.”

I was in the kitchen making Poppy’s birthday cake.

“Are you all right?”

“Exhausted,” she said.

“And relieved.