Three months after sailing for Barbados, Neville and his wife returned home. On the customary first evening back, Sam (Neville's brother-in-law) arrived straight from the bank and announced that, while Neville had been away, a man who managed the Rockefeller family's private funds had approached him at a church financial-board meeting about handling business for them — news that thrilled the bank, since it meant one of their own had earned the confidence of a major private client.