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Dean ran with a crowd and Willis says that Bredon looks like a good fit. Bredon guesses that it was the Bright Young People and asks if Pym (the owner) knew. Willis said that Pym would have run him out. Willis warns Bredon against it and he says the best thing Dean did was fall down the stairs. Bredon asked if Dean had anyone who cared about him like a sister. Willis got suspcious so Bredon decided to go.

The other side of it is that, if a boss hates it, you suck it up because you should have known better. He confirms what other says. He also says Copley and Willis are lone rangers so don’t hit them up. What does he do a half hour later? Bredon asks Willis about Dean and is told MYOB. Willis seems painfully embarassed. Willis starts talking about not wanting to be part of Dean’s game (as if Bredon knows).

Then he asks why Miss M hated Dean, but Ingleby was okay with him. Dean liked to snoop outside of offices to get ideas and then he never gave credit where credit was due. He wanted to interview Garrett who is filling out a porridge report. He’s acting like the new guy and he explains what Ingleby told him. Garrett says if a big cheese says it’s good you need to credit the person who had the idea. Unwritten rule.

I think he’s trying to come across as someone walking on the dark side. Right now comes a woman with bowls of porridge on a tea tray and they get to be taste testers to help inspire ideas. At least she offers a jug of milk, salt, and sugar. Somehow, I don’t think it will work. Bredon is hilarious. He treats it like a wine-tasting, rolls it on his tongue, and acts like a sommelier, giving a detailed report.

It will take a week before it is finished and the dust is settled. Bredon says it’s a bad idea because it looks like an admission of liability. Then he remarks that it’s a good way to get rid of the unfit (fishing expedition). The gal who figured out Bredon’s game hated Dean, but Ingleby is more of a mind your own business and live and let live kind of guy. They talk shop and Bredon wants to knock off.

I can’t tell what he is saying back but she does not like it. I think he’s saying he needs spending money for consumables. This reminds me of my dh at his new job. LOL Your background can easily give you away. He gets a back to work and, before, Ingleby waltzes in with a foul-smelling cigar, asking for Brewer (dictionary, guard-book, guide-book?). Bredon cracks a joke. Ingleby tells him that the staircase is a goner.

He probably would have said he wouldn’t have tumbled down the stairs with it his coat pocket. Victor was in his mid-twenties and worked because he was a nobody. His dad was a banker; the young woman thought he pushed Victor out of the nest. If he wanted to have fun, he had to earn some money. Bredon asked how Dean got into the agency and she flipped to asking how he got into it. She points out his expensive clothes.

It reminds Bredon of his days at Oxford. There’s nothing he likes more than being interrupted in the middle of thinking of copy to chat with someone. One gal stops by in his office and sees a scarab that belongs to Dean. She says it should go to his sister. Bredon says it’s not worth much and it’s not very old. The onyx is real, but it’s not an Egyptian artifact. Dean saw it as his pet mascot.

One woman writes about everything but women’s item, but two men on the team excel in that. Bredon gets along with everyone. Unlike me (who hates gossip and sees it as toxic), he likes the atmosphere. Two guys seem to hate him: one hates everyone, the other seems to hate him only. He finds the department curiously friendly where everyone helps everyone. It’s such a chatty bunch that he’s shocked anything gets done.

Each manager has his own idiosyncracies as do the clients. I wonder if she used the name Bunbury for the whole-meal because she was earnest in her writing. Ingleby specializes in snobbish copy as he is a college man and adds a literary flair to his copy. He lives in Bloomsbury. Wait, who else lives in Bloomsbury? Oh, it’s Edith’s brother from the Ormdale books.