“Clerk’s office.

Don’t be late.”

We went back in at one fifteen.

Judge Evans had his glasses low on his nose and a single page in his hand.

He didn’t ask for closing arguments.

“The court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the respondent abandoned her minor children for seventy-two hours, misrepresented their whereabouts to two separate parties, and converted forty-five thousand dollars from a medical trust set up for the minor child Elsie Mercer.

Sole legal and physical custody is awarded to Arthur Mercer, effective immediately.