Neville remembers his father in his store, watching the very rich customers come in and saying to one of the children, 'God is really merciful. Suppose she didn't have money' — never finishing the thought, leaving the children to complete it themselves.
Date (happened)
before September 1922
unresolved
before 1972
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [553759] belong to telling lecture nids [2137]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1972 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1972 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 1959
bound
Why
Existing before-1972(envelope) bound is left standing; this is an additional, tighter bound from a different source, not a replacement.
Reasoning
The father must have been alive and running his store to make this recurring joke to the children, so the scene predates his 1959 death; this tightens the existing before-1972 envelope bound considerably.
before September 1922
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 003): its source passage 553759 does not exist on www: left off; bound with no source: written as estimated with the reader's reasoning
Reasoning
The scene is the father's store in Barbados watched by the children at home; Neville lived in Barbados until September 1922 (residence 20457). A later date is possible for his siblings, so this is held at possible.
Sources
Source
- Immortal Man ¶20 (My father would say, when they were coming — and they were very, very rich, and he ran his store, and when they all became very, very, later, with a fabulous wealth — he would turn to one of us and he would say, “You know, God is really merciful. Suppose…)