Lorraine stamped each page, signed the certificate, and numbered the stack in the corner.

Forty-seven pages in all.

When she was done, she slid the last copy into a folder and sealed it with tape.

“Your uncle will get notified after the hearing,” she said.

“The order says no notice is to be given,” Clare said.

Lorraine looked at the order a second time.

“So it does.”

She handed me the folder, and the tape was still warm beneath my thumb.