And then Imogen asked her the question that the whole three days was for.

“Mrs.

Thorne, did you believe two thousand four hundred dollars a month was reasonable compensation for four to eight hours of work a year?”

And Agnes Thorne said: “I believed it was reasonable because in thirty-one years nobody ever told me it was not.”

Which is true.

Nobody ever did.

The bank resigned in 2001 and never looked again.

Hale & Vance were never asked.