"I suppose I'll find out, soon enough," he answered, and she surely could recognize, by now, that he'd slipped into his Mysterious Magician voice somewhere in the last few minutes.
Since she'd so thoroughly discomfited him, really.
"Sooner or later, we'll talk about it, and then most likely she'll leave and I'll have to find a new office manager, and hopefully she won't pull the entire place down around our ears when she goes."