The business at the hotel, and those that conducted it, raised a lot of ethical questions. Ellen was a person to whom ethics were important, both personally and professionally, yet somehow, she had ended up working for Mr Steele. Alongside Mr Paul. And installed in an office filled with spying screens. This contradiction, this cognitive dissonance that she recognised, was not easily explained, however, there was an explanation.
After leaving college, a time of honours and distinction, Ellen was at something of a loose end. Full of knowledge, and eager for new learning she may have been, yet at this point, she had only limited ambition because she did not know what to do with her life. In many ways, she had too much choice. Then, when her grandmother died suddenly, she felt no ties anymore
