"Very well. My brother Michael and I are very different people. Gifted with our father’s inheritance he, being the elder, administered the estate. Financial management was not his strong suit, however. When he married, I thought he would settle down, stop the gambling, and for a while, he did. Julia came from that, the only child, but it didn’t last. Michael was soon back to his old ways. Tired of him, I asked for my half, only to find it was all gone."