“Correspondence from your cousin was considered important?”
“Frankly, Mrs. Cool, it was.”
“Why?”
“He was my only living relative. I felt very close to him, very much attached to him. You know how it is when the family circle narrows down to just two people.” Milbers beamed at her over his fingertips.
“And one of them is wealthy,” Bertha Cool supplemented acidly.
Milbers didn’t say anything.
“How long since you’d seen him?” Bertha asked.
“It had been some time — four or five years.”
“You didn’t keep up with him very well, considering all the facts.”
“He preferred it that way. He liked to write, but as far as personal contact was concerned — well, I thought it was better in the interests of a harmonious family relationship to let our contact be by correspondence.”