I found out what Margaret had left unsaid on the following Tuesday.
She told me, in her precise unhurried way, that she had known about the Aldren Group’s
soft position for three weeks. She had flagged it in her notes. She had been watching it.
She had not mentioned it because she had expected it to resolve on its own, which, she
said, had been an error in judgment, and Margaret did not often admit to errors in
judgment, so I wrote it down in my head somewhere important and moved on.
I was not ready for it. She had been right about that part.
What I was also not ready for was the call that came two days later, on a Wednesday.
Of course it was a Wednesday. Wednesday had never been a particularly cooperative day.
I was still at my desk with her Tuesday notes open on my monitor, stil
