HOUSE OF ANIMALS
“Six hundred thousand dollars, and a house worth seven hundred thousand, are to be left to a dog, a cat and a snake! I don’t believe it!”.
The speaker was an angular-faced, impeccably groomed, intense and stern-looking young lawyer, and he was standing over his interlocutor in an attitude that demanded a rejoinder to his crisp words. He had a tone of voice that suggested he was used to getting straight answers out of people, when he fired at them direct questions.
The party he was demanding the explanation from was older, and rather more sloppily dressed, like someone who is retired and does not have to worry about his appearance. He sat slouched in his seat with an attitude of resignation, as if the ways of the world were awkward, unjust and beyond reason, but he had l
