“Nobody needed to know when.

The file asks that it be offered if you contact us about the account.”

I had expected a balance and a withdrawal.

Now I was standing in a lobby looking at an envelope somebody had prepared for a visit I hadn’t decided to make until the previous evening.

“Whose attorney?”

“Thomas Reed.”

The name meant nothing to me at first.

Then I remembered seeing it on a piece of Gregory’s correspondence years before.