The Night Eleanor Switched On the Clippers Was the Night Three Years of House Payments Came to an End

“Tax notices.

Important stuff that comes to the house while you’re downtown working fourteen-hour days.”

“Two weeks ago I asked you to leave all incoming bank mail on my desk,” I said.

“And I told you she sorts the pile so nothing gets tossed by accident,” Daniel said.

“Why are you acting like every scrap of paper in this house is a state secret?”

“Because three bank notices have gone missing from the front hall since October,” I said.