No podía concebir una versión de esta noche en la que el nombre importante al final no fuera el suyo, por lo que mi advertencia se le deslizó por completo, y se volvió hacia el escenario aún arreglando su cara modesta y triunfante, y lo dejé, porque algunas lecciones solo se pueden aprender a toda velocidad.
Las luces empezaron a oscurecer.Chapter 6 — Eighteen Months of Debt
The ballroom settled into darkness, and the stage washed a deep luminous blue, and Malcolm Langford stepped to the microphone to a warm ripple of applause.
He did not begin with the announcement.
He began, as decent men do, with the people.
He thanked the engineers and the floor staff and the account managers who had kept Cardinal Systems alive through eighteen months most of them had been asked to pretend were not happening — the canceled orders, the frozen raises, the suppliers who had started asking for payment in advance, the quiet fear that had moved through the building like a draft no one could find the source of.
