Then she said, “There’s one more thing and you’re not going to like it.”

“Go on.”

“You’re still called Miller.”

The packet took Hannah and me four months.

It is ninety-four pages and it is, I think without false modesty, the best professional work I have ever done. Certified judgment. The specific paragraph voiding each instrument, cross-referenced to each instrument by number.

Bureau suppression confirmations. A one-page plain-language cover memo written for a committee member who will read only the cover memo — which was Priscilla’s single most valuable piece of advice and which I have since repeated to about forty people.