Stephanie walked proudly through the office, showing off her baby bump but trying to cover up her enormous and swollen breasts that seemed to want to escape from her blouse and distract the gaze of all the men she encountered on her way to Magda's office. Magda had called her there after Michael's revelation about their romantic relationship.
"So it was as I suspected," said Magda after closing the door to her office and after Stephanie had sat down. "If you two had something going on and then the sudden change after you told me he had confessed to you in the car." Until she mentioned it, Stephanie hadn't realized the hole in the story that she and Michael were trying to sell to Mr. Hanks, but maybe it was something insignificant, a detail too small to carry any weight. "Why did you tell
