You refused my help when taking it would have been easiest. I am giving it now because I want to, and because death has removed the possibility that accepting it will distort our relationship.

I stopped reading.

That was Florence.

She had solved the power problem.

PART 43 — MONEY AND LOVE

Her letter continued:

If I gave you this during our courtship, perhaps you would always wonder whether money kept you near me. If I gave you nothing after death, perhaps I would be pretending your family’s hardship never mattered to me.

Then:

So I have chosen enough.

Enough.