C220 Some People Were Happy Some Were Sad

"Heh, Mr. Morse, are you suggesting the Gill family is toying with me? They dropped nearly ten million dollars for a betrothal gift on my grandmother's seventieth birthday, and then—poof!—vanished into thin air."

Fannie had clearly had too much to drink, her breath reeking of alcohol, hiccupping away, her expression sullen and utterly deflated