A promissory note for eighty-five thousand dollars recorded in a related-party schedule.

That last one stopped me.

I had not known it was in a filing.

It is: related-party transactions over a threshold get disclosed, and the note I had insisted on — the note I had asked for specifically so that there would be a document — was on page ninety-one of a proxy where a reporter could find it.

The thing I had done to protect myself was the thread she had pulled.

She asked me four questions and I answered three of them correctly, which is to say I said that I could not comment.