“Whitfield reads service files before he reads briefs.

I’ve watched him ask one question that made a lawyer sit right back down.”

“I’ll have it pressed.”

She tapped her pen twice against the door frame.

“Bring the binder as well.

The original, not a copy.”

I carried it out to my car, and the rings rattled against my hip.

At the Greenville Main Bank Branch, a vice president named Lorraine Pettigrew took the order in both hands and read it two times.