“You’ll tell her that her financial interference in our marriage is over.

You’ll tell her she is never to come between us again, and that if she shows up at this house uninvited, you won’t open the door.”

He stared at the black leather strap of his bag, his lower lip trembling a little.

“She was only trying to help me when I panicked.”

“She was keeping you a child,” I said.

“And I need a husband.”