It was something more durable than a company’s better angels, which is a company’s self-preservation, finally pointed in the right direction.

Eugenia did not walk away clean either.

Her part in coaching the theft accusation — captured at her own dining table — cost her two charitable board seats that had been the pillars of her standing, and it made her a named defendant in Catalina’s civil case.

The pearls did not help her.

There is no accessory that offsets a timestamp.

Chapter 13 — Mediation