Finally, the pen held tight and the letters small, as if she were whispering, she wrote: I have been thinking about power a great deal lately. Po says that one of the privileges of wealth is that you don’t need to think about it. I think it’s the same with power. I feel powerless more often than I feel powerful. But I am powerful, aren’t I? I have the power to hurt my advisers with words and my friends with lies.
