Afterward, in the corridor, Susan came over to me, and Richard waited by the lifts, and she said, “He is not a criminal, Chloe.”

And I said, “He is now.

That’s what that was.”

And she said, “That is a very hard thing to say,” and I said, “I know,” and she went back to him.

I do not regret saying it and I have never once enjoyed having said it.

Part Forty-One: What Was Actually in the Estate

Now I have to tell you what the whole of it was worth, because this is the part that reorganizes everything and it is a column of figures.

Margaret Henderson’s probate estate, as finally inventoried and filed with the court in the July of 2025, consisted of: