They will try all three, in that order, and you must be ready for each.

First they will try to scare you, with lawyers and threats and ugly words, because they will assume a woman like you scares easily.

When that fails, they will try to buy you, will offer you a sum that would once have seemed a fortune, to walk away and let them have the rest.

And when that fails too, they will try to make the world believe you are a thief and a fraud, so that the courts will take from you what their money could not.

Simply hold your ground, and let the truth and the lawyers do the rest.” There was a great wisdom in that instruction, though I did not fully appreciate it until later.