‘Talking of Jacob, have you ever noticed?’ ‘Noticed what?’ ‘Well, he’s, eh, always . . .’ ‘Sucking up to Derek?’ ‘Yes.’ We agreed we had noticed. Jacob was new. He’d been with us for only two weeks, but he wasn’t doing himself any favours. We could see almost from the off that he was ambitious,...
The wisdom of keeping schtumm by Francis Gerd
