The chair was the most visible act.

The account showed it wasn’t the only one.

Evelyn remembered the gas-station receipt he’d left behind.

$426.18 had appeared as a handwritten amount on a small square of paper.

At the time, she didn’t understand whether it represented fuel, travel supplies, or an estimate.

Now Margaret could connect it to the bank records.

Not an individual gas purchase of that amount.

The total of several identified travel-related charges.