He said: “Forty hours.”

And I said, “Yes.”

And Robert Dupont said: “You didn’t come to us first.”

Part Sixteen: The Letter

The letter arrived on the thirty-first of October, by courier, to Estelle Baptiste’s office, and it runs to five pages on the letterhead of a firm in Palm Beach and it is signed by a lawyer named Hollis Trager who has acted for the Dupont family since 1996.

It is a good letter.