Keith said. The telephone was propped between his ear and his shoulder, his feet were on his desk, and he was cleaning his nails with a small file. “She just, you know, ran away with it, and everybody just flip-flopped and changed their mind; it was fucking unbelievable; you could like see it happening.” “What the hell did she say?” Vince asked. “Not much; that’s what was wild. I mean she just asked a lot of questions. And they sort of squirmed and fudged and did a little yelling and then like changed their vote. Well, they didn’t really vote, they just said what they, you know, thought, like they really didn’t want to sell, except, you know, like I said, they’d sell part of the company to these guys from Egypt. She asked questions and they talked and Nina kept saying ‘Oh, dear,’ you know how she is, and then all of a sudden she got tough—I mean, have you ever seen Nina tough?—and sort of zeroed in on everything, and then everybody, you know, did the same and then it was all over.
