twenty two

Aftermath

The early part of the following week, leading up to the Executive meeting on Wednesday, was surreal. I found it frustrating not being able to tell anyone the world-changing events of the previous Friday, and could only start executing the outcome in my head. Internally, I was a very different person, but externally I was bound to keep everything the same.

Christine phoned me as soon as she thought the Friday meeting was finished. All I could tell her, with no intonation one way or another, was that we had reached a consensus on the way forward, that it was subject to a full Executive meeting on Wednesday and I would be in a position to let her and others know what this meant towards the end of the following week. Meanwhile, she was to be very discreet about the conversations with Juliette, Graham, James and Marianne and I knew that I could trust her to do so. Barry also phoned me on Saturday, apologizing for not doing so on Friday due to other pressing commitments...