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In the story’s opening line, Woodifield comments on the boss’s comfortable office furnishings. Writing in medias res, Mansfield gains the reader’s interest by beginning the story with two men in the midst of a conversation. She characterizes Woodifield as a vulnerable elderly man, which suggests that there is something amiss with Woodifield. He is too feeble to speak strongly, having a trilling voice that suggests infirmity and femininity—later played against the boss’s youthful, masculine strengths of character. The fact that Woodifield is likened to “a baby in a pram” as he “peers” out of the great arm-chair further suggests…