Then she looks for me the next day and gives me a very plausible reason—she says she had to help her mother, or she's been ill, but to be honest, I don't believe her.
After months of prevarication and legal limbo, Elon Musk completed his takeover of Twitter and promptly ousted the chief executive, the chief financial officer, the head of policy and the entire board of directors.
At the moment of her departure he could prevaricate no longer, and, confessing to the gambling, told her the truth as far as he knew it—that the guineas had been won by Wildeve.