Famous.

Accustomed to controlling his environment.

But he’d grown old enough to know that money couldn’t guarantee companionship.

His previous marriages had left him suspicious.

He believed I might abandon him if he became ill.

So he’d manufactured poverty to see whether I would stay.

I could understand his fear.

I still resented the test.

And I was beginning to wonder whether the hospital project mattered to him for reasons deeper than publicity.

At the end of the meeting, Arthur looked at Julia.