13: Recall
THE MORNING’S MAIL LAY ON GEES’ DESK, each letter opened and with its envelope neatly clipped on its back, and Miss Brandon stood beside the desk. On top of the opened letters she had laid one marked “Personal” and still in its uncut envelope, and under them all a sheet of paper with numbers down its left-hand side, corresponding to the numbers she had accorded to the letters. Gees withdrew the sheet, merely glanced at the first opened letter, and scrawled “Rats” against the figure 1 on the sheet. Then he took the second letter, read it, and marked against 2— “Reject. Soften it down.” And so on through them until he came to the last but one— his secretary always arranged them so that he could get rid of the impossibles first— which he read carefully, and even scanned a second t
