She was, I am fairly sure, at church.

I said, “Something has happened in Phoenix.

It isn’t ours and it isn’t connected, but the board is going to hear about it before they read the report, and I need to know whether that matters.”

And she said the single most steadying thing anybody said to me in that entire year.

“Victoria.

The report says what it says.

Whatever happened at that party doesn’t change one number in it, and if you start managing the sequencing of the two, you will turn a piece of professional work into a campaign.

Go and have your Sunday.”