Therefore, Ms. Smith has asked me to tell you that a meeting would not be helpful at this time.
我转告你现在会面没有什么意义。
If you do have the sincerity to do business with us, please show me your cards and put them on the table.
如果您确有诚意与我们做生意,请摊牌吧。
On turning eagerly to the text, one learns that the lady was a typist who found the sound of office typewriters worried her more and more until eventually she had to go into a mental hospital.