Two receipts showed payment for the same repair. Lila thought the workshop had charged her late father twice and brought the papers to its owner. One receipt was for materials; the other recorded labor under an abbreviated heading.
The total matched the original estimate. Her father had paid in installments because the boat was needed before he could afford the whole repair. A note from her mother promised the second payment after her seasonal wages arrived.
Lila had grown up hearing that the boat was entirely her father's project. The receipts showed how the household financed it together. Resolving the apparent overcharge left her with a different question about whose work the family remembered.
She returned home with copies of the estimate and both receipts. In the album, she placed them beside a photograph of her mother aboard, not beside another portrait of her father at the wheel. The boat's history gained a second contributor without requiring the first receipt to be false or the workshop to have done anything wrong.