The ledger said twenty-two, the sawdust held nineteen. What bothers me isn't the hand that took the three. It's the calculation that taking only three would keep me from counting.

• Pip ArdenI wrote the ledger. I counted three times. I really did.
  MavisI don't doubt your count. It's that four other people besides you have a key to that door.
• Greta SommerA shoe that left the hall last night had sawdust on it. I'm the one who mopped it up.
  MavisI told you to leave it, not wipe it up. A wet mark is the most honest thing there is.