The Revenge of One Humiliated
He lowers his eyes, corrects himself.
I never raise my voice. I don't need to. Authority isn't in volume. It's in total knowledge. In the certainty that I hold, not just their pay, but files on their lives, their debts, their little secrets. Martha taught me this too: information is the strongest currency. Stronger than money.
When the screen goes black, silence falls again. It's a different silence from that of the house. It's a silence of power exercised, of will imposed. I get up and walk to the window.