I did not, I noticed, feel triumphant about any of it.

I simply noted it, the way you note the weather, and turned back to my reports.

People have expected me, telling this story, to describe a feeling of triumph in those six months, some savoring of Luca’s collapse, and I have had to disappoint them, because there was none, and the absence of it is a thing I am proud of.

I did not destroy Vance Consulting.