The first of her university friends are finally engaged, and although she doesn’t feel left behind, she was hoping for good news of her own that day. The junior partnership was within her reach, but those hopes are down to nothing now. The mood has changed around her during the week. Elliot and Ortley’s visit didn’t help, but it’s more than that. Once or twice she’s seen Jemima in Frank Silvey’s office, and her manner with Layla has gone from indifferent and unimpressed to awkward and slightly guilty. It means Jemima knows something, as office spies usually do.And yet it isn’t the inevitable failure to get junior partnership that is humiliating so much as the realisation of what she’s allowed herself to become this past year. A yes person. The sort who doesn’t question anything. Who checks her tone and volume when speaking to the partners. Who lets them believe they’re teaching her something she doesn’t already know. Layla’s greatest regret is that she has sold a piece of her soul and still missed out.It’s rare that she switches on the main light in the staircase, even when she’s back late.
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