The Divorce Papers Arrived Three Days After My Numbers Finally Matched

Then he went back to the register, adding out loud under his breath.

“The fifteenth,” he said.

“They want it by the fifteenth.”

“We have it.”

“This month we have it.” He set his pencil in the spine of the checkbook.

“Something might turn up.”

He said it easily.

He said it the way a man talks about the weather.