His Girl Monday To Friday

She strolled over to Charles’s chair, sat down and kicked off. Around and around...

Barbara believed firmly that the harder a problem was the less point there was in trying to force through a solution. You had to give it time to come to you. For two hours she revolved-sometimes clockwise, sometimes counterclockwise—giving a solution the chance to come to her.

Of course, sometimes before the solution comes to you another problem turns up instead.

At eleven she heard voices in the corridor outside. ‘Sorry to drag you back,’ said Charles. There are a couple of things I need to look at.’

‘That’s all right,’ said a woman’s voice. ‘I’d like to see your office.’

‘Well, there’s not much to see,’ said Charles, mildly amused.

That’s what you think, thought Barbara. She seemed to have been turned to stone.

‘Actually, I think I’ll just visit the ladies’ first,’ said the woman.

‘It’s just around the corner,’ said Charles. ‘First right, then left, then just across by the service lift—’

‘You can’t miss it,’ the woman said, laughing. ‘I might have been able to follow all that if we hadn’t finished the second bottle, Charles, but now I’m not even going to try. At least see me as far as first right.’

Charles laughed. ‘What’s it worth to you?’

‘What did you have in mind?’

Charles laughed again. ‘That would be telling. Come on, it’s this way.’

Barbara leapt to her feet. She darted to the table and hastily stacked up her materials. She couldn’t risk leaving the room, but where could she go? The desk was open to the front—she couldn’t hide there. She looked around wildly. There was a closet where Charles kept a spare suit, she remembered, but none of the wall panels had knobs, even when they were actually doors. You were just supposed to know which panel to press.

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