Maybe Evelyn will agree.

She said:

We’ll get her to raise it.

The next morning, I called my office and took a personal day.

It was the first time in nearly four years that I had taken one without actually being ill.

I sat alone in a coffee shop with a notebook.

First, I wrote down everything I remembered hearing at dinner.

Then I listed every business trip Lukas claimed to have taken during the previous year.