 How does Malloy feel about Miss Drayson?
Every man in the Diplomatic Corps who developed a twitch or a quirk was shipped to Saarkkad IV to work under Bertrand Malloy, Permanent Terran Ambassador to His Utter Munificence, the Occeq of Saarkkad. No two men were alike, and yet there sometimes seemed to be an eternal sameness about all men. And he had his memories of Diane, dead these ten years, but still beautiful and alive in his recollections. For nine years, Bertrand Malloy had been Ambassador to Saarkkad, and for nine years, no Saarkkada had ever seen him. To have shown himself to one of them would have meant instant loss of prestige. The Occeq of Saarkkad himself was never seen except by a handful of picked nobles, who, themselves, were never seen except by their underlings. To violate the rigid social setup of Saarkkad would mean the instant closing off of the supply of biochemical products that the Saarkkadic laboratories produced from native plants and animals—products that were vitally necessary to Earth's war, and which could be duplicated nowhere else in the known universe. It was Bertrand Malloy's job to keep the production output high and to keep the materiel flowing towards Earth and her allies and outposts. Not the worst ones, of course; there were places in the galaxy that were less important than Saarkkad to the war effort. Malloy knew that, no matter what was wrong with a man, as long as he had the mental ability to dress himself and get himself to work, useful work could be found for him.
 Malloy thinks Miss Drayson is a great secretary because she doesn't give away information.
 Malloy thinks Miss Drayson is a great secretary because she doesn't give away information.  Malloy is getting ready to fire Miss Drayson for not protecting confidential information.  Malloy suspects Miss Drayson may be a spy for Karn.  Malloy is secretly in love with Miss Drayson.