“That’s right.”
“She couldn’t have done that to herself, could she?”
“Probably not.”
Bertha said angrily, “You’re the most exasperating person in the world!”
“A percentage of eighty thousand bucks would be a lot of dollars.”
Bertha beamed. “You get busy on that angle, lover.”
“There are a couple of things for you to do, Bertha. Go see the widow, get her to employ us.”
“Suppose she popped him?”
“There are children. If we did work for their benefit a court would give us a fee, if the guardian employed us. The mother’s the guardian right now.”
“I’ll tie her up,” Bertha said with determination.