An Adventure with Fiorella

 If there is one thing you can count on Fiorella for (and I hope there are a lot more things), it's that she will always pays her bills on time, which is why she was shocked to get a gmail message that she was overdue. Someone must have been a mistake, she reasoned, or, maybe worse, someone had stolen her card. 

Nothing to do but do a quick check for untouched mail on her desk, then look through her purse and her cardcase, and then, quivering with fear, call the card company. Yes, Fio was overdue, and yes, the woman on the other end of the line would tell her what her purchases had been (and, thank goodness, Fio recognized all of them,), and all your girl had to do to set everything to rights was send in a check.

With trembling fingers, Fiorella wrote out the check, entered the amount in her accounts book, addressed an envelope, pasted on a stamp, and hurried off down he street to the community post box.

And all the way back to the house, she wondered how long it would take for the payment to get to the credit company with Louis deJoy still in charge.