In October of the same year she sent a second email, which says, in part: I’m struggling to see the deliverables on this one.

Can someone walk me through what we’ve actually received?

She was called into an office.

There is no recording of what was said in it.

What we have is her own account, and Julian did not contest it, and it is this: she was told that Halyard’s work was a confidential competitive assessment relating to a possible acquisition, that it could not be circulated, that she should not put questions about it in writing, and that she should not raise it with Arthur because Arthur was not read in.

She did not raise it again for seventeen months.