“I didn’t know what you liked,” he said.

“So I brought four things.”

I looked inside.

A croissant, a cinnamon roll, a lemon tart, and a cookie shaped like a little sailboat.

“The cookie is ridiculous,” I said.

“I thought so too.”

We sat on a bench where people passed with strollers and dogs.

He told me he had appointed outside leadership at several companies and resigned from day-to-day control of others while investigators reviewed their records.