" Tamara lied to us again "
Mark said.
" This is it, 8 years or not,
she is lazy,
she is stealing from us,
she is stealing from the company.
We need to confront her. "
" How?! "
I asked
" Our primary attorney's say
even though everyone knows she is a thief
we can't go after her
she is threatening to lie on the stand
and blackmail us,
that will hurt the company,
the shareholders, the employees."
" Obviously nice guys finish last again! "
Mark was fuming. But we both agreed We were going to personally
have to pay for what she did.
" Just remember,"
Mark said as he looked me in the eyes " She can't
lie to her own reflection
in the mirror at night "
" You can't help
everyone
if they don't want to be helped. "
" She made
these choices.
We would be helping her far more
by confronting her. "
We asked a lawyer who was a friend
to send her a list of demands,
knowing she would do everything possible
to get revenge.
But still, she would have to live every day
realizing eventually it would catch up with her.
She still had to live with the knowledge
she had done this.
I consulted the strictest moralists
I became a virtuoso of deceit....
to learn how to appear,
philosophers to find out what to think
and novelists to see what I could get away with.
Christopher
Hampton (1946-____)
English playwright
Merteuil, in Dangerous Liaisons
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