The bank will contact you about the household accounts.

My attorney sent over the paperwork this morning.”

A receipt was stapled to the front of the envelope, and I could make out the amount from where I was standing.

Sixty dollars.

“Who swore that the house wasn’t safe?”

“Your husband did, dear.”

She said it the way she might mention that the mail had arrived.

“We have a buyer coming to walk through on Thursday,” she said.