Grace was suspended on the Friday.
Not for anything. That was the shape of it, and the shape was familiar, and Amelia recognised it with a sick lurch because she had built one exactly like it nine months earlier for a loud man in York. A conflict enquiry, opened on receipt of a letter, expected to take six to eight weeks; Grace to be placed on paid leave in the interim as a precaution; the firm keen to emphasise that no allegation of misconduct was being made.