“There wasn’t one.”

“Everybody says that.” She didn’t look up. “I need you to say the other thing.”

“What other thing?”

“The thing where you tell me who wanted you gone and why, because custodial contractors don’t get terminated for cause with a theft flag over nothing. Somebody spent effort on you. Effort is expensive. Who paid it?”

So I told her about Richard Vance. She wrote the name down.

She asked me how I knew about the golf, and I said a coworker had texted me a rumor two years ago, and she said a rumor is worth exactly nothing, and I said I know, and she said good, at least we agree on the price of things.