To spend your final strength turning your money into other families’ miracles is, it seems to me, about as close to buying your way into heaven as a person is ever likely to get, and Arthur had done it not to buy anything at all, but simply because, at the end, he had finally learned how.

Chapter 25 — Dismissed With Prejudice

“Julian and Victoria tried to appeal the terms of the trust again last month, by the way,” Sarah added, in the tone of a person mentioning the weather.

I felt, to my own quiet satisfaction, not a single flicker of the old fear.

“And?” “The judge dismissed the petition with prejudice in under ten minutes,” she said.

“The forensic records and the financial trail are sealed permanently in the court archive, but the waiver they signed that day at the hospital is ironclad.