C23 The Gift Was Fake?

Parked right at the entrance was unmistakably Cornell's car!

Fischer hadn't anticipated Cornell arriving at the Murray residence so early. The sight of that car nearly drove him to turn back, but he quickly dismissed the thought, reflecting on the years of subservience that had led even himself to look down on him, let alone the Murrays.

No longer the timid matrilocal son-in-law he once was