“I hired you to get me information.”
“Your attitude towards your aunt seems a little detached.”
She said with feeling, “I’d like to be closer to her. She’s my only relative. At times she misses me. Then she gets these boy-struck ideas. But so far she’s always drawn the line at matrimony. She’s been afraid someone would get her money. She’s tight as a new shoe. When she’s lonely she loves me and wants me to come stay with her. A few weeks ago she had an auto accident. Since then she’s had attacks of sciatica. She thinks they were caused by injuries received in the accident. She makes a great to-do over it, rests on an air cushion in a wheel-chair and all that.”
“And the insurance company?”
“Thinks the accident was her fault.”
“And she’s a little man-crazy?”
“That’s putting it mildly!”
“Too bad,” I said. “She might get over it with a little financial pruning.”
“She might... I can’t see what she’s trying to get. I simply can’t understand her-yes I can, too. I understand and I sympathize, but I can’t…”
“Condone?” I asked.