Sabrina Chao arrived at the interview room without a clamouring foreign media, without an entourage and without even a single media minder.
Chao, bearing only a broad smile and a friendly handshake, indeed fit the part as one of the more low-key Commodores in the 29 years that the Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) has been handing out its award.
A few hours later, she would be donning the awkward headgear symbolic of the honour.
