“Anything else?” I asked.
“Isn’t that enough?” Bertha asked.
“It’s plenty,” I said. “Now would you like to know what you’ve cut yourself in on?”
She smiled and said, “Well, that might help some. No hard feelings, eh, Donald?”
“No hard feelings,” I said.
Bertha said, “I stick up for my rights. When I have to fight, I fight to win. I don’t hold any grudges. I fight because I want to accomplish something. When I’ve accomplished it, that’s all I ask.”
“She’s coming up here?” I asked.
“Right away. She said she had to see you right away. It didn’t sound like a date to me, lover. It sounded like business.”
“It is business.”
“All right, Donald. Suppose you tell Bertha what it is. I’ve declared myself in on the deal, so I’d like to see what cards are in my hand — and what the stakes are. But don’t forget that I hold the trumps.”