I could have bought outright.

Patricia’s financial adviser told me not to, for liquidity reasons that are perfectly sound, and I did it anyway at a level that he called conservative and I called Tuesday.

Two hundred thousand into education accounts, a hundred each for Leo and Nora, which at their ages will be a very great deal by the time it matters and which neither of them will be told about until they are seventeen.

Ninety thousand into an account that does nothing.