“What?”

“Four years and two months in your parents’ house. We were thirty-nine and thirty-seven. We both worked.” I put the towel down. “We had a deposit, Colin.

We had it in 2015. I’ve been over the statements.”

He set the plate in the rack very carefully.

“Because Dad offered,” he said. “And because saying no to my father is — ” He stopped. “You know how that goes. You’ve watched it.”

“I have. For four years. From inside it.”