Burial
“He had a babyish face and curly hair and (when he chose) the entreating eyes of Bambi.For several seconds, Nathan ignored him -- concentrating on a printed memo about another increase in paper costs. Then he swivelled round in his office chair.Justin said, 'Are you okay?''What do you mean?''Well. You were off your game during the marketing meeting.''Look, I didn't mean to contradict you.''That's not what I'm worried about. I think I got us out of it. I'm worried about you.'But Justin hadn't got... them out of it: he'd just made a bumbling, mendacious spectacle of himself. Justin was often doing that, and only Justin didn't know it.Nathan hadn't been paying attention during the meeting, because he was thinking about Holly Fox and, unintentionally, he'd contradicted one of Justin's lies. The lie concerned a chain of newsagents based in the north-east of England. The chain was usually a reliable source of revenue, particularly for the meat-and-potatoes novelty range.In fact, the large stock returns were a consequence of Justin's failure to complete a renewed terms negotiation with the customer's chief buyer.The returns were slow-moving stock that, ordinarily, the retailer might have held on to or sold off cheaply.MoreLess
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