Van said nothing. He and his wife kept separate bank accounts. When Van’s salary and stock had begun skyrocketing with the Internet boom, that didn’t seem the proper time to confront Dottie with some strange demand that they change their usual financial arrangements. That was too much like one of those creepy post-nuptial agreements. Van was never going to dump Dottie Vandeveer for some puff-headed trophy wife. Mondiale’s other VPs might like to pull such stunts, but those clowns were just money people.