Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, responded to investor criticisms that the process was slow and disorderly by saying that the huge interest shown by the suitors was humbling.
He'd helped Sheridan pry the show from HBO-taking Yellowstone to potential alternative suitors, from whom he'd gotten a series of polite, and not so polite, passes. Still, he had pressed on.
Rejected suitors take to roaming as naturally as unhived bees; and the business to which he had cynically devoted himself was in many ways congenial to Venn.