“You know he did.”

“I’m sorry,” she said, “but I’m not a mind-reader.”

A waitress came and took our orders. I noticed her looking around the dining-room. “Worried?” I asked.

“About what?”

“Whether Charlie will see you dining with me before you have a chance to tell him that it was a business assignment the boss gave you.”

“Who’s Charlie?”

“The boy friend.”

“Whose?”

“Yours.”

“I don’t know any Charlie.”