“From the bottom?” Mason asked. “How did you do that?”
“Well,” she confessed, “it’s stuff that’s been in there too long.”
Mason tilted back in his swivel chair, crossed his long legs, assumed his best lawyer manner and said, in mock cross-examination, “Now, let’s get this straight, Miss Street. Those were letters which had originally been put in the ‘IMPORTANT UNANSWERED’ file?”
“Yes.”
“And you’ve gone over that file from time to time, carefully?”
“Yes.”
“And eliminated everything which didn’t require my personal attention?”
“Yes.”
“And yet this morning of Monday, September twelfth, you take out a large number of letters from the bottom of the file?”
“That’s right,” she admitted, her eyes twinkling.