Kate hadalways been a fast reader. It took Sharon a moment or two to catchup. “Gosh,” she said. “It’s from her client Gwilym.” Reading aloud,Kate said, “It is with a heavy heart that I am forced to reportyour boss is a lying, cheating…” Kate hesitated before saying theword, “whore.” Sharon pickedup where her daughter left off: “It has recently come to myattention that Min has been fornicating—” “Now that’s aword you don’t hear every day.” “—with amember of your staff. I demand that you fire Phil from ITforthwith.” Before Sharonfinished reading the email, Kate was already scrolling down to theoffice manager’s response. Brenda basically informed the clientthat she didn’t concern herself with employees’ personal, privatelives and, anyway, Min was the boss. “There’s aresponse,” Kate said

