8 I won’t bore us both to tears, me literally when I remember those first trying hours, about my on-the-job training. Benson was nice enough to guide me through the first few calls and tell me how to introduce myself as his new secretary, and then I was abandoned to the wolves of Wall Street while he made his own calls. I’ll just say that things could have gone horribly worse, and sometimes I thought they had before I managed to stutter out what I wanted and for whom. After three hours of work I stumbled out of the living room where Benson had put me so our conversations didn’t drown out one another. I suspected he didn’t want to see me break down at each call. His sharp ears caught my shuffling feet in the hall, and he found me in the kitchen drowning out my stress with a nice, tall