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“Oh, darling, couldn’t you please just wait until he gets here?” Lynn Waring plaintively asked her husband as she saw him pull his heavy overcoat from the closet near the front door. She sat tensely on the living room couch, her hands clasped tightly together as she added, “I hardly know your boss and, to tell you the truth, I’m a little scared.”
“Don’t be silly, honey,” Ed scolded her, a vague look of annoyance clouding his face as he turned around to face his wife’s worried frown. “Now, you know very well that I have to meet an important client for dinner tonight and, with a promotion just around the corner, I can’t afford to be late. So, snap out of it, sweetheart. If you want me to be an executive, you’re going to have to act like an executive’s wife!”
Then, noticing the crestfallen look on Lynn’s pretty face, he sighed and walked over to her, dropping his coat on a chair. Lynn’s face brightened for a moment as she saw him approach, then fell again as she saw him steal a look at his watch.
“I’m sorry, Ed. I know I shouldn’t be keeping you,” she murmured apologetically. “It’s just that I don’t even know the man very well, and the way he looked at me when I met him … I just don’t understand why I have to go out with him alone, even if it is to the Executive Club!”
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