"Mr. Frost," she replied, her voice professional, but hard. "Have a seat. Please help yourself to coffee, if you'd like."

There. She had been civil.

"This," she said, holding out a file to him, "is the injunction I have just filed in Massachusetts Superior Court. We're challenging your withdrawal of my client from this school system. We are also asking that the power of attorney be overturned, on the basis of fraud and misrepresentation."

That ought to start things off nicely.