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Yes, the meeting seemed to go pretty well and we covered all the important areas in my agenda. There were one or two small points that I would have liked to have got through but I can probably have my assistant send up memos to the managers of each department concerning these. I must say I was very impressed with your ideas for the future of your department. Good work, I’m also very impressed with that young man in the finance department. What’s his name? Uh, Mike. He could have quite a future in front of him. I can certainly use fresh ideas like his in this company.

Well, I don’t know. We didn’t really talk about my department. Most items on the agenda seem to be about our new marketing strategy or something, which. has very little to do with me. Well, I suppose it will affect me eventually. Because if we do expand, a lot more staff are going to be needed. So I’ll be busy interviewing for a while. But apparently that’s unlikely to be before next September. Actually that’s a point, though. Perhaps we should think about taking our holiday in France before then because you said some thing about being very busy in your job after August. We don’t want the same complications as last year.