The capitulation confirmed all of Paul’s suspicions. Grafton had been on the dole from Montgomery, as had been Hopkins. The strategy of meeting Hopk...ns stride for stride had convinced Montgomery to pull the plug and accept the reality of the new plant. That meant that Hopkins’ fees and studies had ceased, too. It explained his unpleasant visage. Grafton had to be hired to keep him silent and out of sight. The meeting was concluded and they repacked their brief cases. Paul started thinking about. ”Somehow I made the right spontaneous reply, “You must be hungry. I’ll buy.”She stared at me for the first time, “That’s a nice offer and I won’t have to pay for a cab, right?” I nodded and led her to my car. We found a Denny’s and got a light supper followed by an ice cream dessert. Her name was Doris and she learned mine was Mike. Nothing about earlier was even hinted at.When she directed me to her apartment I walked around the car and opened the door for her. Doris looked at me and said, “Oh. " "Mr. Jackson suspected that might be your response so he's authorized me to offer you five thousand dollars if you will agree to meet with him for thirty minutes." "He must feel like he has something pretty important to say to me if he's willing to pay that kind of money." "Actually Mr. Jamieson, for Mr. Jackson the thirty minutes of time is more valuable than the five thousand dollars." "He must be a pretty busy guy." "Believe me, he is." "Okay, I can use the five grand right now and if a. To rub salt in the wound, she told you that she had been fucking another guy on the side, because he was more dominant in bed and you were too submissive to contend.It costs you most of your savings to break your lease, but you found it to be a sound investment as you could no longer live in the same city as your horrible ex-girlfriend. Plus, you had heard that Transaton had an insane amount of job openings for specifically guys as the city's population was heavily skewed female. That combined.