Both trustees were surcharged in the sum of one million four hundred and eighty thousand dollars, jointly and severally, which is the excess plus the lost return at the trust’s own actual rate.

The beneficiary’s costs and expert fees, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars, were awarded against the trustees personally and not out of the trust, which is the single most important paragraph in the order from where I was sitting, because it is the reason Imogen Sarkissian took that telephone call in December.

And Jolene Thorne did not appear at any point in the proceeding, and judgment was entered against her by default, and she was in California the entire time.

Imogen telephoned me at twenty past four in the afternoon on the seventh of November and read me the figure and I was standing in my own shop with a block plane in my hand.