“It’s news.”
“All right, publish it.”
“And you’re here. That’s news.”
“All right, publish that.”
“And your comments are also news.”
“I haven’t made any. You did the talking, and I don’t care to discuss it. I don’t want you to publish a word I’ve said. Good-bye, Mr. Lam.”
I bowed affably. “Thank you very much for the interview, Mrs. Lintig.”
She slammed the door behind me as I walked out into the corridor. I went back down to the Blade office.
“Do you,” I asked of Marian, “keep a rewrite boy?”
“Oh, yes, Mr. Lam,” she said, “for the star reporters, we do.”