Linus Changes All the Plans, Explained：add two and two together

What's really going on

For once Linus isn't calculating — or rather, he's calculating for someone else. Reversing the merger, the plant, and the wedding means giving up the business victory he spent the film engineering, and he does it without hesitation. But he still misreads the situation: he thinks he's sending Sabrina away to Paris with David, exactly as planned, when Fairchild tells him the goodbye kiss had "a few tears in it." Linus dismisses it — "You're just imagining things" — and Fairchild answers, "I may know nothing about Dow Jones Averages, but I do know something about kisses." That's when the man who moves tankers finally "adds two and two together," and the real reason for all the rearranging lands.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• One set of orders cancels a merger, a wedding and a shipment.
• Miss McCardle's We are? is the only resistance in the room.
• Linus reads a goodbye kiss where others see affection.
• The whole morning is run like a checklist.

発音のポイント

• You're late — You're reduces to jər, leaving late as the stressed word.
• get his — The t in get and h in his both weaken, so the two words almost merge.
• looking for you — Looking for runs together and sounds like lookin-fer.