He was on the board.

He was not working the room.

He was outside on a terrace on the phone being patient with somebody about a broken chiller, and I went out for air and heard the end of it, and the thing he said to whoever was on the other end was, “It’s not your fault.

Tell me what you need.”

That is the whole of it.

That is what I fell for, and I have had a lot of time to examine it and it has held up as an accurate account.