The Ashworth dinner was the first one she saw all the way through while it was happening, which was, she thought later, the beginning of the whole disaster: from that night on, she stopped being able to be surprised by him and started being able to watch him, and watching a person is very close to something else.
Ashworth Foods was a family bakery group in Cheshire, four hundred million pounds, third generation, and Brenner Hale had acted for them since 1994. Yasmin had run their last two deals. Everyone at that table had known her for nine years.