"I thought you were waiting in the library," he said to his secretary.

He did not say hello to his secretary.

"Get me a newspaper," she said to her secretary.

"There'll be a long-barrel Colt in the other box," he said to his secretary.

The next morning I said to my secretary, "How come you never told me about Laurie?"

'Not so fast, Ezra,' he said to his secretary of state.

"One thing," he said curtly to his secretary when that young man presented himself.

Chili could hear him too and said to Nicky's secretary, who was getting ready to leave, "You think he'll be on the phone long?"

"I guess we have some telephoning to do," King said to his secretary.