Lana was in despair. "You’re always doing this. Why? I can’t believe you got away with shacking up with that journalist. She was covering the campaign! Somebody could have made a huge ethics stink about that. And before that, there was that crazy architecture girl ... and before that, there was that worthless Boston city management girl.... You can’t keep getting away with this, cutting things close this way. It’s like some kind of compulsion."