Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish Summary

It is late Christmas Eve and Pat Hobby is at the studio, working for less than half what he had made in his heyday. Pat is chatting with a guy from the scenario department, waxing nostalgic about the old days. Then Pat returns to his office where the secretary he had been waiting for has finally arrived. The girl is crying. Pat assumes she is upset about having to work Christmas Eve but learns that she is upset because she was once the secretary to Harry Gooddorf, one of the studio executives, but he had moved her to the secretary pool. Pat learns that the secretary, Helen, has information that could be damaging to Gooddorf. Pat asks the secretary to dinner.

Over dinner, Pat gets Helen to tell him about her information. Helen once hand delivered a...