Waiting has always been intolerable for me, and this time is no exception. Before I placed the first call, Argent and I hashed through how much time to give Lynne for the call-back, and we settled on an hour. Long enough to read through and digest my "report," and long enough to at least begin to corroborate anything she didn’t already know. Not long enough—or so we hoped—to stage some kind of counter-op. (The fact that we couldn’t come up with any convincing ideas about what counter-op she might stage didn’t make us breathe any easier on that score.) So we settled on an hour, for all the nice, sensible, logical reasons.