It did not stop being nobody’s business because she wanted it to be private, and it did not stop being nobody’s business because the concealment was sympathetic, and it did not stop being nobody’s business because she was, in fact, doing the job extremely well.

She had sold it.

That is the whole thing.

You cannot sell a thing and then decline to be asked about it.

And the second thing I understood on that plane, which took about four more minutes and which was worse:

I was not a bystander to this.

There is a version of my position that is entirely defensible and I had been living in it for six months.

In that version, I am a man with a medical background who was hired to help an injured woman move safely, which is a good thing to do, and the fact that this also happens to prevent people from noticing her injury is a side effect of it, and the decisions about disclosure are made eleven floors above me by lawyers.