Mione is at the desk at eight on the fourteenth going through the front of the ledger, and at twenty past eight she finds the entry she has been half looking for.

MioneNineteen thirty-one. The debt was settled in full. There is a cross in the margin and the word settled and a signature.

CorvinaThen it was reopened. Debts do not reopen. Somebody has been collecting this estate's money for sixty-seven years off a debt that was paid.

MalfoidMy grandfather. The plate is in his name and the hours went into it and I have spent five nights in that bed for a man who was already paid.