90. You could charge £2.95 and still be under your three quid ceiling." And the gross takings wouldn't change and might even drop." Why?" Because a f...air number of our patrons would desert us for the Featherstone Arms, the quality of your beer notwithstanding. Let me tell you our side of the story."The Egg nodded condescendingly."I don't know what your mark up is when you've discounted by fifteen per cent but I'd guess it was still about twenty five to thirty per cent. Let's take twenty five.The. Then I handed her the phone and told her to call the power company. I told her to tell them her power was out. She argued that I had fixed it, but I told her to do as she was told. I allowed her to put on a short robe, but I told her to let it fall open when she answered the door.I flipped the breaker off and went back to my truck and settled in to wait for the repairman to arrive.When the truck got here, Barbra made her way to the door. She made sure her robe was just as I had told her. She. .." I've told you, it's not up for discussion," she shouted over me and I gave another deep sigh. She stared at me and collected her ledger from the coffee table."Abi," I continued and Abi looked up from her book."Please don-ne drag me into this," she told me firmly and her head shaking."Please can we talk about it because you are just dismissing me without hearing me out. Abi, please help me here, as an independent opinion."Abi looked across and shrugged her shoulders. "I don't want to get. I'd gone online myself and subscribed to one of the many photo-fit sites that had sprung up to enable people to construct images of their old likenesses, but I had yet to produce one I thought was good enough.Seated around the conference table were Jill Wainwright and Lynne Bendis, women in their late fifties like Rachel Cohen, and the other senior partners; a guy around Mike's age I'd never seen before today, though he was obviously another lawyer; Michelle Sawyer, young, black, very snooty,.
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