W: Thank you for meeting with me, Stephen, at such short notice.
M: Not a problem, Margaret. Now, please give me some good news. Have you agreed to my last proposal?
W: I have, indeed. And I wish to sign the agreement pending one small change to be made to the contract.
M: Margaret, we've been through this for almost a year now, back and forth, making alterations. Are you sure you want to make a sponsorship deal for your clients, or not? I ask this, because, frankly, some people at my end are running out of patience.
W: I understand your concerns. But as I'm sure you understand, we hold our clients' best interests to be of the utmost concern. We therefore comb through the fine details of all contracts, rest assured, we all appreciate your firm's patience.
M: OK, fine. So what change do you wish to make?
W: Essentially, we would like the new deal to exclude the Middle East. That's all.
M: The Middle East? Why?
W: My client has a couple of other prospective marketing deals from companies in the Middle East. Those offers, should they materialize, would exclusively employ my client's image in the Middle East only. Therefore, in order to avoid any conflict, we would need to ensure that both marketing campaigns do not overlap geographically.
M: What business sector in the Middle East are we talking about here?
W: Real estate.
M: Well, that should be okay then. So long as the product is very different from our food and beverage market, there should be no conflict of interest. Nevertheless, I will have to run this through my people. I don't foresee any problem, though. The Middle East is a negligible market for us, but I still need to check this with a couple of departments.