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The two girls saw him get up from his desk and walk to the doorway of his office. He stood there with the keen, unrevealing smile on his face.
兩個姑娘看著他從辦公桌旁站起身，走到辦公室門口。他站在那兒，臉上帶著熱切而又不露聲色的微笑。
“Did you send for the tickets?” he asked Nancy.
“你票子去訂了沒有？”他問南希。
“I got the tickets all right, “she answered, “but ...” she tried to smile in the same hard way the boss did. “But there just aren't any staterooms to be had,” she told him. “Not for love or money.”
“票我是拿到了，”她回答說，“可是……，”她試圖笑得像頭兒那樣灑脫。“可高級客艙就是訂不到，”她告訴他。“怎么也訂不到。”
The boss was certainly disappointed. Anybody could see that.
頭兒顯然很失望。誰都看得出來。
“Suppose I try it?” Paula suggested quickly.
“我來試試怎么樣？”波拉趕緊提議說。
And for the next ten minutes, half the office employees could hear Paula telling the ticket agent exactly what she thought of him.
在接下來的十分鐘內，辦公室里一半的人都能聽到波拉對那個票務員坦言自己對他的看法。
“Listen,” she said, “I don't care whose reservations you have to cancel...”
“聽著，”她說，“我可不在乎你得取消誰的預訂……”
Well, the job was worth going after. There was the salary, for one thing. And there was the prestige. The boss' secretary knew a great deal about the business. And there were the interesting people she got to talk to. The important people. And the boxes of perfume, flowers, and candy they often left on her desk. And there was Bill Hargrave for a boss. Young and clever and attractive. That was a factor, too.
嗨，這工作還是值得去努力的。一方面是薪水的問題。另外還有地位的問題。頭兒的秘書了解很多業務情況。還有那些她將能與之交談的有趣的人。那些重要人物。還有他們常留在她桌上的一包包香水、鮮花和糖果。當然還有比爾·哈格雷夫這個頭兒。年輕聰明又有魅力。那也是一個因素。
