1. Ninety Days Ninety days. The solicitor is very clear about that and very apologetic about everything else.
2. Clause Four The sheet comes off in the hall and it is a picture of her father and it says good afternoon.
3. The Gallery The corridor upstairs has forty frames on it and she walks the length of it at night with one lamp.
4. Clause Five The reading proper is in the estate office with the will flat under a lamp and three sealed copies beside it.
5. Clause Six Mione has been in the library since six with the wills of every Malfoid since 1610 and a candle she keeps f...
6. The First Night There is a frame in the bedroom and neither of them put it there.
7. Hospitality Dinner is laid for three at a table that seats thirty, and the frame is at the head of it.
8. Her Room Malfoid takes you by the wrist on the landing and does not say where, and does not need to.
9. The Inspector Mione's room is the small one at the end, and the frame in it is already face-down and covered with a coat.
10. The Wording Two in the morning, the library, one candle, and Mione reading the 1798 case out loud to a painting.
11. He Was Listening The frame does not answer for eleven seconds, and everybody in the room counts them.
12. The Obedient Room Malfoid's answer is to drag a rug in front of the fireplace in the long room and turn the biggest frame to ...
13. The Ledger Mione's answer is less theatrical. She takes you to the estate office, clears the desk, and sits on it.
14. Veiled On the ninth night the frame in the corridor shuts its eyes without being turned or covered.
15. The Vote The trustees come at ten. Three old men, one clerk, and a document appointing the executor permanently.
16. Clause Six, Read Out Mione stands up and reads clause six in full, at dictation speed, to men who have known it for forty years.
17. What He Wants He makes the offer in front of everyone, which is the first honest thing he has done since the funeral.
18. The Gallery Floor Forty frames on the walls and every one of them was a sleeping Malfoid until tonight.
19. Notes Mione is still holding the page of notes and puts it down on the floor when you kiss her, which takes a while.
20. Between Two Frames You have Malfoid against the wall between two frames and Mione's hand flat on the back of your neck.
21. Afterwards Afterwards the three of them lie on the rug among the dropped lamp and the notes and the burned out candle ...
22. Named The ledger is on the gallery floor and Mione writes the name in it and turns the book round.
23. The Ninety-First Day The appointment lapses at midnight and nothing happens, which is what a lapse looks like.
24. What To Do With Him It ends with Malfoid holding a lamp and Mione holding her notes and the two of them wanting different things.
25. Ending — The House Is Warm She keeps him. It is the only decision that keeps the house whole, and she is not sentimental, she is pract...
26. Ending — The Boiler The canvas goes in the hall fire in a gilt frame too hot to hold, and he talks the whole time.
27. Ending — The Ninth Name The heir is nineteen and has lived under a dead woman's name since she was eleven, and she signs the deed h...