He was dusty and self-conscious of his appearance. Everyone but he and Billy had gone to get cleaned up. He went to the desk to register and remembere... he had never mastered writing left-handed. Carmella Casey stepped in close to Emerson and wrote his name for him."I was told some of the things you did on that drive, like save my daughter's life twice, at least. Pat choked up telling me about it. Maria was unusually quiet. Emerson, Maria is a wonderful girl. She means more to us than anything. She answeredthat the reversal would do me and the other men a lot of good, me for mypart in the play and them for a better understanding of what could happento a man in our company if he wasn't sensitive to women. That's when Iunderstood. I had dated a vice-president of the company, a protege ofthe CEO, and we had had a bad parting, and this was obviously mypunishment. Oh well, I thought, I probably deserved it.Tomorrow we shop, Tish. What should I do? I've had resumes out formonths since. ”He went back to his pocket pulling out a check saying, “I know that your father negotiated a 45% cut of the gross, but personally that didn’t seem like enough to me for the effort put in by all of these very talented people. That moment with your mother went straight to my own heart. I used to sing with my mother when I was your age. I changed it to 50%. Here is our official check for $11,275,500.”After I took it from him, he pulled something from his pocket saying, “Here is an additional. "Yes." Do you think the woman in that picture would ever let you do it? Let you destroy your soul because you let someone die when you could have saved them?" No, I wouldn't," said a female voice from the speakerphone. The principal looked at the phone and me."I took the liberty of calling your wife," I told him."Baby," he said, pulling the phone closer."James!" she said to interrupt him. "I know! Thank you, but I would never have let you throw away people's lives." I can't," he whispered."I.