“It’s good for Mason.”

“It’s good for Mason,” she said back to him.

He heard nothing wrong with it.

“I’ve thought about calling you,” he said.

“I never had a sentence ready that would fix anything, so I didn’t call.”

Claire rubbed the cuff of her cardigan between her thumb and her finger.

The wool had gone thin there years ago.

“You had thirteen years to write a sentence.”