“She thinks her boss is sweet on you.”
“Fred! That’s ridiculous! He’s been good to me because I’ve been lucky enough to help out.”
“Sure! That’s it,” he agreed.
“He’s interested in just one thing, the same as the rest of us, helping to bring this terrible war to an end.”
“The thing that most of us are interested in,” Fred corrected her. “Some people never get their minds off themselves for long. Miss Stone is like that. You never worked in a large organization, did you, where there were a lot of really big shots?”
“No. I’m a small town girl.”
“That’s where you were lucky. Me, I worked with a big city outfit and I saw a lot of private secretaries like Erma Stone.”
“Were they all like her?”
“Most of them were, the very successful ones. They work like slaves, do the boss’s work as well as their own. By and by they get to thinking they own the boss. Erma is like that.”
“And she thinks I’m trying to steal her property? That’s absurd!” Sally laughed.