They are Lawsons by every measure that woman recognizes, and she has made it extremely clear to a large number of people that any suggestion otherwise will be regarded as a personal matter between them and her.

It is, I think, the only unambiguously decent outcome in this entire account, and it was produced by the person I would have named as least likely.

And then there was the social part, which lasted about eighteen months and which was, day to day, considerably harder than any of the legal work.

Because for the first four months there were two competing accounts in circulation, and mine was losing.

His was simple and it was good: that his wife had been unable to have children, that the marriage had died of it, that he had found happiness, and that she had responded by taking a forensic accountant into his company and destroying his career out of spite.