“My name and address will come later. The first question is whether you are free to accept certain employment.”
“What sort of employment?”
“You’re working for Mr. Belder?”
“I have done work for him.”
“There’s an unfinished matter on which you are working?”
Bertha frowned. “I don’t think I care to answer that question — not in so many words. Do you want me to do something against Mr. Belder’s interests?”
“No. Something that would probably be very much to his best interest.”
“Why the questions, then?”
“ Mrs. B elder might not like it.”
Bertha said, “Mrs. Belder is nothing in my young life.”