"I'm stricken but philosophical. Don't uggs on sale for kids you see me, pierced to the heart, but--"
     "Ban," interrupted the instrument: "you're flippant. Have you been drinking?"
     "No. Nor eating either, now that you remind me."
     "Has something happened?"
     "Something is always happening in this restless world."
     "It has. And you want to tell me about it."
     "No. I just want to forget it, in your company."
     "Is it a decent night out?"
     "Most ugg boots on sale respectable."
     "Then you may come and walk me home. I think the air will do me good."
     "It's very light diet, though," observed Banneker.
     "Oh, very well," responded the telephone in tones of patient resignation. "I'll watch you eat. Good-bye."
     Seated at a quiet table in the restaurant, Betty Raleigh leaned back in her chair, turning ugg boots clearance sale expectant eyes upon her companion.
     "Now tell your aged maiden auntie all about it."
     "Did I say I was going to tell you about it?"
     "You said you weren't. Therefore I wish to know."
     "I think I'm fired."
     "Fired? From The Ledger? Do you care?"
     "For the loss of the job? Not a hoot. Otherwise I wouldn't be ugg boots sale clearance going to fire myself."
     "Oh: that's it, is it?"
     "Yes. You see, it's a question of my doing my work my way or The Ledger's way. I prefer my way."
     "And The Ledger prefers its way, I suppose. That's because what you call _your_ work, The Ledger considers _its_ work."
     "In other words, as a working ugg boots on clearance entity, I belong to The Ledger."
     "Well, don't you?"
     "It isn't a flattering thought. And if the paper wants me to falsify or suppress or distort, I have to do it. Is that the idea?"
     "Unless you're big enough not to."