Essery eyed him for a moment and then leaned in toward the desk with a grin that might have been wicked if she was capable of that. "How about I take it all on for a week, and you stand ready instead of Horace to banish him if he causes too much of a problem?" She knew how to bargain. Maybe not with a man like him, but with general average sort of people. "If it really is going to be that much mail, I'd need more an incentive to agree."