“So that"s it?” she said.
He nodded. “I"m going to inform my boss that you should remain in your present position and that in my opinion, you don"t have enough field experience for our unit.”
The waitress arrived with a silver saucer containing a discreetly folded bill. He opened it, raised an eyebrow at the amount and then she saw him reach inside his jacket pocket, noted the confused look, and watched him as his hand transferred to the other side pocket, then trouser pockets, before he began the whole process again, patting himself down. Nicole thought that it really was quite amusing to watch, made even more so because the waitress was now raising her eyebrows at her customer"s evident discomfort before she discreetly made herself scarce. Enough was enough, time to put him out of his
