“That I’d ask you first.”

I took the pen cap back from Toby.

“I haven’t had tea with Patricia in three years.”

“Then you should ask yourself why she wants to now,” Arthur said.

The bank downtown had a safe deposit box in my father’s name that I had never opened.

The key had been sitting in the blue folder since the week after he died, a little brass key with a paper tag that said OAK ST.

At 1:30 I stood in the vault with a bank officer named Mrs.