“Derek wouldn’t have graduated at all without that money.”

She picked up her brochure again and turned to the back page.

“Now please take that paper off my folder,” she said.

“We have a very important afternoon ahead of us, and your brother needs to focus on his contacts.”

“Did Derek know where that thirty thousand dollars came from?”

“Derek knew his family supported him,” Eleanor said.

“That was all he needed to know.”

At two o’clock I went back up to my room on the fourth floor.