hat one chair had remained unfilled during the entire meeting-the one belonging to her mother.</p>
<p class="excerpttext">Usually Charlotte opted for the late and dramatic entrance with the emphasis on dramatic, but rarely did she skip meetings altogether. She&#8217;d wanted her mother here so that she couldn&#8217;t later claim that no one had given her the details of the trip or that she didn&#8217;t know what was expected of her. As the &#8220;front woman&#8221; for the company it was imperative that she