Brad: Drink after the conference?

Elizabeth: The whole gang?

Brad: Just me. Others flying back tonight.

Elizabeth: OK. Hotel bar @ 7?

Brad: See u there.

Nothing happened that first night. Yes, Brad had flirted. Yes, Elizabeth had flirted back. They’d had more than one drink. But she knew better than to take it any further. He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. She was its star salesperson. They were at a conference, with industry contacts all around, using their corporate expense accounts. Maybe the flirting would lead to something; maybe not. But if it did, she wanted it to start off right.