Underneath was the company logo: 'A Woman's Place is on Her Knees' along with their address there on the 32nd floor."I can see how you might find that...offensive, Miss," Jimmy conceded."Might? My God, anyone who wasn't a complete Neanderthal would find it offensive!" she declared. "They have no right! No right at all! And I'm not going to stand for it! I'm not leaving until I speak to the president of the company and tell him exactly what I think of his disgusting advertising campaign!" Well. Through her horn-rimmed glasses she gave me a look, which if it had been down an aquiline nose, would have been a sneer. As it was actually Pippa's retroussé nose it came over merely as a cold stare.After announcing herself she strode purposefully past me into the front room.She laid her briefcase on the table, sat in a chair and pointed for me to sit in another across from her."Where are your invoices, your receipts and your cheque book stubs?" Her voice dripped with venom, "you were informed. Youwere going to attend John's bachelor party whether you wanted to or not.What now? Well, all the cards are still stacked against you. The secondlargest insurer in Asia is the largest medical insurer. I have moredoctors, nurses, clinics and hospitals in my pocket than mostgovernments, and some of them are going to be going to work on you. Ialso have more insurance claims investigators and private investigatorsthan most police forces have detectives, so I know more about you thanyour wife does,. That'll put her in a real dilemma, as she'll have to wear it in public at the pool. It won't be nearly sexy enough, but we can repeat the same thing every few weeks, and she'll eventually get one sexy enough. By the way, Ava, please don't tell Chloe about our plans for her, or even that we have plans. She knows we're trying to help her, but she'd get paranoid if she knew we made plans about it. That's silly, but it's how people are." No problem, especially because you're doing it for her.
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