“There’s a reason for all of this,” Julian said.

“She’s been spending.

Dad, you have no idea what she’s been like since the baby.”

“Don’t,” I said.

I took out the bank ledger and set it in front of Frank.

He read it with his finger under each line, the way he read everything, the way he read the Sunday paper.

“November second,” he said.

“Eleven thousand four hundred dollars.