“You’re going to want to go in there and you’re going to want to hit him.”

“I know.”

“Don’t.”

“Wendy, I’m not—”

“I know you’re not.” She adjusted the purse.

“But I want you to hear an old woman say it out loud in a car, so that in four months when a lawyer asks you what happened in that room, the answer is boring.

Boring is what you want.

Boring is the most expensive thing you can be right now.”