I've left the payroll alone so far.

That's the worst of a break like this.

The whole company has got to pay for every blunder from now on." Luck's eyes hardened while he listened.

He did not call his work a blunder, and the charge did not sit well coming from another.
"Buy off Bently Brown," he advised crisply.

"Offer him a new contract, naming this stuff as comedy.