Denise came from the market with a clipboard.

Emily the cashier came after her shift.

Rebecca attended for half an hour before leaving for work.

Clarence insisted on coming, wearing his best cardigan and carrying a stack of stamps.

I began with the restitution total.

The room went quiet when I wrote the amount on the whiteboard.

Most of us had imagined the theft as a collection of small items, and small items had been easy to forgive in the abstract.

Two thousand sixty-four dollars and forty cents was an actual loss to an actual store.