A scene from the throne room

The plaque from Cutler's Row arrives Thursday and will not stay level on a moving doorframe, which is what the signwriter said and what I wrote down. The warden's letter goes in the bag; the bag is now the archive, and the archive is wet.

The warranty is refused under clause nine: the signwriter's estimate was a chit for roughly eleven dollars, and you cannot warrant a plaque against sagging when it is nailed to a door that swings. The loss goes in as warranty void, plaque unfixed, reason — the door.