"Then why was I not informed?"
The receptionist was not clenching her teeth in anger as well.She was not the one who deserved this shouting.But she dare not take the assistant's name lest anyone assume that she was playing the blame game.The assistant had been working here with Mr Long for many years whereas she was new and relatively unimportant,so she bent down her head and prepared to take the dresing down while hiding the expression.
But Neil was and had always been an accurately observant person.He could judge from the blink of an eye what the other person was thinking.Calming down,he went to sit on his chair and turned it towards the girl standing with her head bent.In a soft voice,he uttered just one word,"Who?"
