He told me not to embarrass him at the luxury estate dinner. He leaned in close and whispered, ‘Try not to embarrass me. These people are way above your level.’ I didn’t say a word; I just walked quietly beside him. But when the host hurried straight toward me, shook my hand firmly, and said, “We’ve been waiting to meet you for a long time,” in that moment everything changed – it turned out everyone there had actually been waiting to meet me.
He leaned in close as we rolled past the stone gates of the Whitmore estate, the kind of property people…