On AA100 from New York to London, a woman flies the Atlantic the same night she is named chief executive.
The best seat on the plane, and the only person on it who cannot sleep. A story about what the crown actually costs, and what it is for.
Camille got everything she had ever wanted at four o'clock this afternoon, and now, at thirty-eight thousand feet, she is the only person awake on the whole aeroplane.
They told her in the boardroom. The chairman said her name, and then he said the word unanimous, and there was a moment of real warmth, hands and congratulations and someone actually applauding, and she smiled and thanked them and felt, underneath it, the strangest thing come over her.
Not joy. She waited for the joy. She had been waiting twenty-five years for the joy.
What came instead was a kind of quiet, like a door closing softly somewhere behind her.
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