We recorded it with its date instead of slipping it into the eighteen-thousand-dollar total that was already reconciled.

He asked whether I regretted not pursuing the largest possible claim.

“No.”

“You could have asked for more.”

“I could ask for all sorts of things.

That doesn’t mean the records support them.”

“Even after what Marjorie did?”

“She has to deal with the correction and the agreed accounting.