Wordlessly, he closed in on her, and after a brief struggle pulled the paper out of her pocket.
It said, simply, "I love you." Norm looked at Virginia, who turned her head away.
"I can't appreciate the joke just now, though I realize it must be very funny. Charley will enjoy it. But what a lot of trouble. Suppose you had got stuck in the duct, then what? Is it worth the risk? And the violation of security is very serious."
"I'm going to quit anyway," she muttered.
So deep a voice for such a small girl! "Why did you do it?"
"Well, it all started as a joke. Charley said you were shy, and—and—well...."
"I see. Natural enough, I suppose. And you pretended to be your brother on the phone."
"No, I never said I was Vic," she denied, quickly.
He was handling this all wrong; he wasn't getting anywhere. All this was just talk, evasive talk. "Charley hired you?"
"Yes. When Vic left for basic training."