I hope this helps ... I work at Poleson Ltd. I've been working there since 1967. Last month the manager asked me to see him one morning when I had time. He was new so I wondered what he would be like. When I went to see him, he said “I’d like you to help me with a special project. I’ve heard that you speak German.” He said that a factory in Germany wanted a specialist for six months. “Tell me if you can go.” I told him I’d like a few days to think about it. “All right,” he said, “and if you want all the details, my secretary will give them to you.” So I asked his secretary to give me the papers. “I don’t know where they are,” she said. “When I find them, I’ll phone you. Oh! Here they are. Let me have them back after you’ve read them.” When I told my friends about it they all said, “It seems marvelous !” “I haven’t said yes yet,” I said. But next day I told the manager I wanted to go and he said, “I hoped that you’d agree.”