It says, in substance, that he was not in a position to assess the chief executive’s medical condition and did not seek to; that his concern was that the board had received no information of any kind on a subject that a reasonable director would consider material to a transaction containing a key-person provision; and that he was voting against not because he opposed the transaction but because he did not believe the board had been given what it needed to approve it.

The vote was nine to two.

Vivienne Bramhall presided over the entire three hours and forty minutes.

I was outside the door for all of it, which is where an aide sits, on a chair in a corridor with a phone face-down on his knee.

She came out at 12:50 and we did the corridor, and the elevator, and the fifty yards to her office, and the transfer into the chair, and it was routine by then, and she did not say anything until the door was shut.

Then she said, “Nine to two.”