Carrasco, I’m going to have a conversation with you and I want to tell you in advance what kind of conversation it is, because that is a courtesy that lawyers usually do not extend to non-lawyers and it costs me nothing.

“I am not your lawyer.

I represent the company.

If you tell me something that the company has to act on, I will act on it.

Do you understand that?”

I said I did.

And then she asked me four questions, and it took me nearly two years to understand what she was doing.

She asked whether I had been asked to make any statement to any third party about the chief executive’s health.