She sighs and fiddles with her dress, clearly not one for small talk.
Very well, yes. You contacted my husband awhile ago. Yes i'm also aware of his rather poor choice of wording to reply with. I made my opinion on that suitably known.
She leans back a little.
So, what did you have in mind between our two companies? Surely you know we are not doing so well either, so I am tolerably interested in this so far as common best interest goes.