He ran it again, carefully, and it did not work the second time either.

Even if she spent nothing on herself, took no days off, and bought not one unnecessary thing, the woman who cleaned his house was not quite surviving on what his company paid her.

He sat looking at those two columns of numbers for a long time, the cost of a life on one side and the wage for cleaning his mansion on the other, and he understood that the gap between them was not a rounding error.

It was where a person lived.