That last one was not about Michelle at all.

That was something else, and it had been running for three years, and it is the reason the matter eventually stopped being an internal governance question.

On the Thursday I sat down with Deborah and with a corporate attorney named Ifeoma Nwachukwu, and we spent two hours on a single question, which was: what am I obliged to do with this?

Because by then my position had changed.