He had never seen anyone so taken aback. She said, all flustered, "I'm
Toni. Toni Fitzgerald. You can just call this building and ask for me.
Any time."
"Maybe I'll do that," he smiled. "But now, let's see Old Man Demming."
* * * * *
That took her back too. Aside from being asked for a date--if asked
could be the term--by the system's greatest celebrity, she was hearing
for the first time the interplanetary tycoon being called _Old Man
Demming_.