Rosalie set her bag on the bench by the door.

“He’s old.

Let him be fat.”

On the desk in the front room, I set down the leather-bound ledger and the cleared trust accounting binder.

The court seal was stamped on the first page in blue ink.

I put both in the drawer and closed it.

The drawer stuck halfway, and I pushed it shut with my thumb.

Rosalie stood in the kitchen doorway with the cane hooked over her arm.