A complete outside audit of the company.

Protected benefit trusts for the employees, the kind no relative with a grudge could ever raid.

Strict rules of governance, written and enforced, so that never again could a member of my family hold unwatched power over the business or the people in it.

I had learned, at a catastrophic price, what happens when a man decides that blood is the same thing as trust.

I tried, once, to give Lucy money — a check for two hundred thousand dollars, the exact sum she had supposedly stolen, offered now as a settlement for what I had actually done to her.