A BUSINESS PROPOSITION
copyright: Lesley Tara, 2012 Her interest in me had been apparent – quite frankly, almost blatant – at our initial meeting, and Ms Brewster had smiled with the feline satisfaction of a cat who sees the bowl of cream about to be poured when I had suggested that the next stage of negotiations might best be conducted as a ‘confidential one-to-one meeting’ between her and myself, ‘quite privately’ and at a time of her convenience – if she preferred, as I was sure she was very busy, after the end of the normal working day, as I was ‘quite prepared to do whatever it takes … to arrive at terms of our mutual satisfaction’. Oh yeah, when called for, I can do blatant too. I didn’t quite go so far as fluttering my eyelashes at …