He took a chairman’s seat with a defined scope: two board meetings a quarter, capital allocation, and nothing else.

He gave up the Vancouver project entirely.

He kept an office and used it three days a week and was home by four on all of them.

There was also the matter of the school, which he had not anticipated at all.

In May, Gemma’s second-grade teacher asked for a meeting, and Chadworth went into it braced for a discussion about grades.

Instead a woman named Mrs.