When she was upright with her hand on the desk she said, “What’s your name.”

“Emmett Carrasco.”

“Who do you work for.”

“Meridian Site Services.”

And Vivienne Bramhall, four minutes after being helped off her own floor, said: “If you repeat one word of this to anybody, I will make sure you never work in this city again.”

I want to record exactly what I said back, because it is the sentence that got me the job and I did not know it at the time.

I said: “Ma’am, I’m going to go finish fifty-one.”