Chapter 124 Do Your Job

• "And you are his Achilles' heel. For three months he's been snarling around the courthouse like a lion with a big thorn up his ass. Anybody makes any kind of cheating wife jokes, he's tearing them a new one. One of his assistants nearly lost his job for saying something -- unkind -- about you. It's clear to anybody who's not completely blind, that the guy is still hung up on you.
• "What I have to ask myself is, what if I hire you and you come in here and you fall or some guy in here falls for you and word gets out that one of my assistants is banging Bill Maitland's ex-wife? You want to know what I think will happen? What I'm afraid will happen?
• "I'm afraid that he will take out his anger on everybody associated with this office. Now, like I said, I'm not afraid of him. We'll fight it out in court and I'll still get a paycheck and go home and get a good night's sleep.