I said that a lot of people would have found a way to say less.

And she said, “Yes.

And then there’d be a man out there who had lied for me, and I’d have had that for the rest of my life.”

She apologized for one thing, precisely and without any decoration, and it was not the thing I expected.

She said: “I ran your credit at four in the morning and put the total on a page.

You told me what that looked like from your chair and I said it was fair and then I went right on doing the same thing to you for two years in a more expensive way.