All staff, all vendors, all scheduling, all household finance under a hundred thousand a quarter, and you report to me and to nobody else — not to a partner, not to a fiancée, not to anyone I might ever be foolish enough to bring into this house again.

That’s clause nine.

Theresa wrote clause nine before I asked her to.”

Rosamund opened the folder.

She read the first page.

Then she read the compensation page, and stopped.

“Mr. Prescott.”

“It’s not a reward,” he said.