“It’s okay, Chloe,” Phillip said, chuckling.
“It’s not,” she said. “I keep trying to, you know… Anyway. You haven’t told the kids about Rob yet, have you?”
“No, I haven’t,” he replied. “Why? Should I?”
“Oh, thank goodness,” Chloe said. “No. Absolutely not. They can’t know just yet.”
“Why is that?” Phillip said. “It would be a perfect subtle push. Not even Daniel could object to that.”
“Well, yeah, if the kids were trying to encourage him to join, that would be fine, but the data we have indicates that it’s not Rob that’s the problem.” Chloe’s voice wavered a bit. “He really wants to join us.”
“But…?”
“But something’s in the way,” she said. “Having the kids talking it up would set him up for so much heartbreak if the whole thing collapses. It could also push his metrics down if he’s let down so badly– how would you feel if you lost the best learning opportunity of all time through no fault of your own? He’d probably go into total depression.”
“Probably, but I doubt it,” Phillip said. “I just had dinner with him. He’s already in depression.”
“What?” Chloe’s voice jumped an octave; Phillip jerked the handset away from his ear at the spike of noise. “What do you mean?”
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