A Nero Wolfe Mystery2000

Mrs. Rachel Bruner:
Do I need to tell you who I am?

Nero Wolfe:
Mr. Goodwin named you, and I read newspapers.

Mrs. Rachel Bruner:
I know you do. I know a great deal about you. That's why I'm here. I want you to do something perhaps no other man alive could do. You read books too? Have you read one entitled "The F.B.I. Nobody Knows?"

Nero Wolfe:
Yes.

Mrs. Rachel Bruner:
Did it impress you?

Nero Wolfe:
[pausing] Yes.

Mrs. Rachel Bruner:
Favorably?

Nero Wolfe:
Yes.

Mrs. Rachel Bruner:
My goodness, you're curt.

Nero Wolfe:
I answered your questions, madam.

Mrs. Rachel Bruner:
I know you did. I can be curt, too.