“And I grew up thinking that was you being proud.

And it turns out it was you being wrong about where the money was, and nobody ever told you, because the only person who could have asked was you.”

And then he said: “I’m nineteen.

Somebody in this family is going to ask a question in writing and it is going to be me.”

Part Forty-Two: The Accounting

The formal accounting was filed on the eighteenth of July 2025 and it runs to four hundred and six pages and it is the most boring document I have ever read in my life and I have read all of it twice.

It was prepared by Hale & Vance and it is, Imogen says, a professional and complete piece of work with no concealment in it anywhere, which is the thing I keep having to say about those lawyers and which keeps surprising people.