” Then she picked up the form and pressed the intercom and said, “Heather, can you please ask Lucy to join us.”Jack wondered whether Lucy would ...eed to have this all explained to her or whether in fact she already knew about it.Sarah answered the last unasked question with, “I have already discussed with Lucy why you have been called to this meeting. We reckoned you would choose Lucy for the reasons I have given you in any case, and she has already said that she is quite ready to deal with your. Pausing to run my fingers across the smoothly polished surface, I could feel the vibrations emanating from the old wood. Those vibrations, scenes really, for anyone who could read them, were filled with memories of things that had transpired since I had acquired the desk, as well as memories from when my grandfather had also sat behind it. Shaking my head to clear away those memories, I refocused on the task at hand.Up until a few months ago, I was the President of one of the largest. Not even for the President.One other thing he is guilty of, major league graft. He has been stealing money from everyone and everything for twenty plus years.Stroke, whispered Linda. Dead in three or more days.Up here in the balcony, see those two guys in the front row, in short sleeved white shirts? They are blackmailing one of the Senators. He’s chairman of some committee or other.Sepsis, muttered Linda. Both of them. Counts as one though. They’ll both be in Intensive Care by tomorrow.The. She’s not allowed to see me right now. I have to talk to Alice again, soon.”“Are you in trouble?” Melanie asked.“Not at this point. Her mom was cool, at least as far as it goes. Alice is struggling with being a proponent of ‘free love’ while she was in college and having a daughter who is fifteen and, in Alice’s mind, contemplating having sex.”“That ship sailed on your birthday,” my sister said.“Alice does NOT know that. And I’m happy to play along with Penny’s fib about that.”“Be careful,.