“Is it true?”
Commissioner Martian quickly stood up to face his companion while asking, a surprised but excited look on his face.
“I don’t know. I just received the news this morning from my secretary, so I informed all of you”. Commissioner Crook answered with a helpless expression on his face as his 3 companions surrounded him enthusiastically.
He felt like cursing. “Don’t you have any dignity as old as you guys are?”
Though this was what he thought in his heart, he could not say it out. Still, seeing a bunch of old geezers surrounding him and throwing questions at him gave him a headache.
Calming himself down, he patiently answered their queries, even to ridiculous questions like if he was in the bathroom when his secretary brought the news to him.
They justified themselves by saying that for such important information, his secretary could barge into anyplace just to let him know at the fastest time possible.