She glanced quickly at the door, lowered her voice, and said, “There’s been a bit of correspondence about the business. It’s all in the file. Some of the other correspondence is in Bertha’s office — locked up. She hasn’t sent it out to the file. I don’t know where it is.”

“What’s that correspondence about?”

“Getting you placed in a deferred classification.”

“Did she make it stick?”

Again Elsie looked at the door. “This would cost me my job if she knew about it.”

“Don’t I have something to say about that?”

“Not about that. She’d ride me so I had to quit.”

“Well, what about it? Did she fix it up?”

“Yes.”

“When?”