and signed a pre-nuptial agreement, four days before my own wedding, without a lawyer of my own.
Reeve had one. His own firm drafted that document. It is thirty-one pages long.
I was told I could take it away and have somebody look at it.
In those words, out loud, by a man in that office, in front of a trainee.
And there is a note on the file of him saying it, which I have now read, and which was produced in the divorce, and which is the reason I lost.
And I said: “No, it’s fine. Thank you.”
Exactly the same four words. Two years and four months apart. Exactly the same reason.
Because asking what is in the thing is how the thing gets taken away.
I did not sign that agreement because I was naive.
Four people have told me I was naive. All four of them were being kind and all four of them were wrong.
