She would be exercising a power you gave her for a scholarship.”

Silas sat with that.

And then my son, who was eighteen years and eight months old and who had been accepted into a state architecture programme with forty-one thousand dollars of unmet need, said:

“So it isn’t a scholarship.”

And Imogen Sarkissian said, “No.”

And he said: “It’s the eleventh of June.”

He did not respond to the email.

Imogen did, on the sixth of March, in two sentences, declining the award and noting that a copy had been placed on the court file.