Not the most private office, and as if to validate his thoughts, he heard voices as
he got closer. Oh, Eugene ... He couldn't recall ever hearing Eugene laugh, so
maybe some other male was in the office, too. ... And he seemed to be . . . flirting?

Let us go into private session as the directors have done. I feel rich after having
got my ... any other feeling in regard to her. If I had found she was a hopeless flirt
 ...

Let us go into private session as the directors have done. ... If I had found she
was a hopeless flirt, or something of that kind, who was trifling with me, I should ...

... response, keep up love's pressure, win a secret rendez-vous . . . then give her
private lessons in the stillness. Very soon he could alarm even practised flirts.