Payable on Death
And she said: “Honestly?
I thought it was going to be nothing.
I get that box maybe twice a year, and nine times out of ten the customer just didn’t want their husband knowing what they’d spent.”
“So why did you go and get Arthur?”
And Beatrice said: “Because the slip said sixty-eight thousand and the account said sixty-one four, and I couldn’t give him the money whatever I thought, so I had to say something to somebody anyway.”
That is it.