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"You led your company badly astray by insisting on half-planned joint performances," she says in a deadly, flat voice. "You had nowhere near the polish necessary to succeed, which should have been easily foreseen.

"As for you, in singular, it is evident that you are finding your place in the company in which you are so new; and though not so notable a contributor in your own right as of yet, are accepted by your betters with minimal complaint," she offered, a veritable study in faint praise.

Onward