She intended to save the money so she could raise her child, but for some reason, she wound up deeply in debt. She could not decide whether to call the unhappy man stingy or generous. If he was kind, he would have come to stay next to the hospital bed to allow her to repay the two million dollars because he was afraid she would flee. If he was being stingy, he assisted her in quickly paying the ten million dollars penalty for breach of contract.

But the debt had come full circle, and now it was hers once more. Clarence was hence stingy and miserable.

Clarence discovered that Stella...