Margaret has told her that.

Two of the men in good suits gave statements supporting Nathan’s characterization of his finances, and one of them testified.

He was thoroughly dismantled on cross in about six minutes, and Margaret felt no satisfaction about it, because he was fifty-five and out of his depth and had plainly believed what he was saying.

And four people who had been at the funeral — four out of ninety-one — made it known, in the way people do, through other people, that they thought the whole thing had gotten out of hand.

That a mother had made a scene at a funeral and the police had had to be called and now a family was destroyed and a little girl had no parents.

One of them was a neighbor Margaret had known for six years.