I kept the receipts.”

I want to explain what that folder actually was, because people hear “she had a secret document” and imagine something clever, and it was the opposite of clever.

It was ordinary diligence, performed on time, seven years earlier, by a woman doing her job.

In March 2017 I put four hundred and ten thousand dollars into a company.

I was married to its founder.

Every single person I told — my own lawyer included — assumed I would do it as a capital contribution, because that is what wives do, and because the tax treatment is simpler, and because papering a secured note against your husband’s company is, socially, an unpleasant thing to do.