The Interview - Pt1

Molly Parkes followed the butler down the hallway; she was here to interview Jasper Neyve.

"This way, please, Miss Parkes," said Francis opening the door into Jasper's study. "May I get you like tea or coffee, Miss Parkes?"

"Coffee, please," Molly sits on the sofa and settles back to wait for Jasper. She chews on her thumbnail and wonders if Jasper Neyve is as unassuming as he is portrayed in other interviews or on television. She admits to herself that she is quite nervous about meeting him, which is ridiculous. Molly almost feels like pinching herself to wake up to the fact that she is a hardened hack and not some love-sick teenager about to go on her first date.

Molly takes a look around the room. It's very classy; tidy but lived in. There is beautiful objet d art placed around the room, and the furniture is antique. His desk is at the far end of the room; it's an old desk and well cared for but used; it holds a computer, an old anglepoise lamp, a pile of books on