And nothing else.

No portfolio.

No second property.

No pension of her own; she had never worked.

No art, no bonds, no jewellery beyond the pearls, which are her mother’s and which were valued, which I found unbearable, at four hundred dollars.

Nine hundred and forty-three thousand dollars of assets against a one million four hundred and eighty thousand dollar judgment plus a hundred and sixty-eight thousand of costs.

She had not become rich.