“They might be connected.

We still need to know how.”

She nodded.

A customer beside us argued with a machine that had accepted his payment but refused to print.

The clerk came over, pressed two buttons, and explained which paper size the file required.

I watched the small problem become manageable once someone identified what it actually was.

For years, I had been told family relationships were too complicated for specific questions.

Looking at the dates, I wondered whether complication had sometimes been an excuse to avoid specificity.