When the old man wrote the ledger's last line, I heard every bit of it from inside the cupboard. His hand didn't shake because he couldn't write it. He held out against writing it, and then wrote it anyway.

• Nick ChopperWhat does that mean.
  The Old HeadSee. Everyone asks this late. Nobody ever asks while the one they should ask is still alive.
• ChopfytIf we're talking about the old man's hands, I've got a part in that story too.
  The Old HeadGo boast about your part in front of your wife. In here, it just shows you borrowed it.