I boarded my husband's private jet and his secretary was in my seat, feeding him peeled orange. His mother told me to be considerate. I stepped off. Then the crew asked whether I wanted the flight cancelled.

She chose the seating.

She is the one who told that young woman to sit in that seat, by message, at seven minutes past six that morning — two hours and eleven minutes before I boarded.

The message is nine words long and it does not contain anything you could call an instruction. It is a suggestion about airsickness.

He did not know. Aurelio did not know.

He was simply the one who had to produce a sentence when his wife walked into a cabin and found somebody in her seat.

And he produced the one that came easiest to him, inside about two seconds, with no thought in it at all.

That is its own verdict on that man and it is not a defence of him. A person who has to be in on something to do damage is one kind of problem. A person who will produce remember your place under no pressure whatsoever, as a reflex, is a different kind and it is worse.