She resigned that week.

I did not ask her to.

I did not accept it for eleven days and then I accepted it, because she would not come back into the building and I do not think she could have.

I see her twice a year.

I paid out her pension in full and she tried to refuse it and I made her take it, and every single time I see her she apologizes within about ninety seconds and I have not yet found the words that stop it.

The last time, in the spring, she said: “I have gone over it, Marcus, and I keep arriving at the same thing.