“She is recovering, is she not?” said Mrs. Evershed.
“She seemed to me to be in very great trouble,” replied Barbara. “Seeing Dick upset her dreadfully.”
“He ought to have gone there long ago,” said her mother. “His not doing so arouses suspicion.”
“Arouses suspicion, mother?” echoed Barbara. “What do you mean?”
“Well, Barbara, you may as well know it—there has been considerable talk about a post obit.”
“Post obit—what is that?” asked Barbara.
“It is a document in which a man makes himself liable to pay away property which he does not possess at the time, but which will be his at the death of a relation.”
“I do not understand,” said Barbara.
“Well, my dear, that is what your husband has done.”
“My husband has signed a post obit! I think you must be wrong.”