Well, she had, of course, when she created her firm. But who had given her that kind of money to work with? I realised I didn’t know. I didn’t know if she had employees, or rather: I knew that she did but I could not picture them. She must have investors. I might even be one, now that I thought of it, though not to any heroic level of commitment—and if I wasn’t, why wasn’t I? Wasn’t that what successful grandparents were for? Had she really gone out into the world and got her own funding as if I did not exist? How?