Caroline frowned and in an instant all her prepared dialogs were long forgotten. She stepped closer to Cave, eyes narrowed. "Well, I'm glad you've decided to start paying her for her services! While you've been busy playing, I've been working. I tried time and again to get you to take a second to even glance at the papers but every attempt was put off or ignored! The investors were going to pull out if I didn't do something. That was five hundred grand on the line. I won't pretend it was the right thing to do, but choosing between betraying your trust and getting the money needed to keep science happening, I made the right choice. I'd make it again in a heartbeat."