"No, Miss Conner, we are truly sincere, absolutely sincere!" Justine refused to leave, her voice rising with urgency, "If it weren’t for your cooperation, we’d have already planned for retirement. We were ready to invest all our savings into this partnership with you. Isn’t that enough sincerity?

"If we weren’t worried you’d give the opportunity to someone else, we wouldn’t have bought the land! That wouldn’t be right, would it? Once you confirm our cooperation, we can ...