“None of this needs to happen in this room,” she said.

“It only needs to happen.

I’d suggest everyone go home and call their own attorneys.” And, slowly, they did.

I have noticed that when people tell this story back to me — and people do tell it back to me, it has the shape of a story people like to repeat — they always want there to have been a scene.

They want the police to have burst in, the handcuffs, the gasps, the villain dragged out in front of the wedding guests.

There were no wedding guests.