Priya's room is the only tidy one in the house. Files on the desk, bed made, one photograph turned face down.

PriyaReceipt. Dated. Signed. My employer audits my accounts and I'm not explaining a boarding house.

You sign it and she watches your hand the whole time, then folds it into a case with the bank's name on it.

You ask what she does. She says assessing.

She does not say what.