you are right Trooper it did have to be said, and what I am about to say will probably be shot to flames but, Real Estate is a cut throat industry every dollar counts to someone. If TM had been told by her new employer to attend the conference, she could hardly have said, "I am sorry. I can't my lovers wife will be there", it just wouldn't wash and wouldn't be good for her image. I don't think she could have done that, Allison perhaps could have though, but why would she.
there is something else that he was covering up from both Allison and TM.
On another topic, remember a few week ago Paul Tully posted that there could be as many 5 people arrested for this murder. Looks like he could right, the BC's, Olivia and TM (although perhaps she now has immunity from conviction)
Regarding Olivia naivety, I said this morning that used to have neighbour who was the wife of a pastor. She was a lovely women and we were quite close and our children played in each other homes each and every day, but while Jill (her name) was aware of this world and its goings on, she wasn't a part of it, and lived in a bubble that was almost childlike. I met a few of her friends over the years, they were all ministers wives, and it was something I noticed all of them possessed. Perhaps you could call it peace, serenity or childlike, but they seemed apart from this world. I remember when Princess Diana died, and I mentioned it to her the next day, her reply was "Yes, I heard about that" and she continued to discuss something else, not like most women who poured over all the details of the affair and the death of the Princess of Wales. There was just something different about Jill and I see a similar quality in Olivia, a remoteness and an unwillingness to be tainted by our dirty world. Might be wrong JMO