In the Restaurant
Carl RITCHIE: Between you and me, even now I sometimes wonder whether or not you could have given me that advance payment.
Margaret PEAKE: It would have been tricky, but I could have managed it.
Carl RITCHIE: What about your senior managers?
Margaret PEAKE (with a broad smile): I often used that one on you, but fortunately in my case they always allowed me a lot of scope for personal discretion. They would never have intervened on such an issue.
Carl RITCHIE (with a more awkward grin): Of course not, that’s what I suspected. But what could I have done to obtain that advance payment?
Margaret PEAKE (becoming serious again, almost solemn): When you put the question of the advance payment to me, it was already too late.
Carl RITCHIE: ...
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