Francis Johnson was not only very good at reading people, he was also very good at persuading them.
Of course, everyone in their department had this skill, and he wasn't even the best of them.
If it were someone else from their department sitting here—say, Big Bear—Kenneth Osborne would probably have already been talked into tears, fully recognizing his mistakes, repenting for what he had done and what he had said…
Francis found it funny inside, but on the surface he still spoke very earnestly: "But Lawrence Winters really did go too far. Even if resigning isn't that big a deal for the two of you, the fact that she didn't say a word and insisted on making every decision on her own is quite a headache. Women—when they cling to you like dodder vines every day, it's really annoying. But when they don't cling to you at all and insist on deciding everything by themselves, that's an even bigger headache."
As Francis spoke, he couldn't help thinking of Sarah White.
