( all this in jerry 's low-voiced , most suave and debonair , you'll-trip-over-your-own-feet , matter-of-fact tone , like the best adolescent 's when he 's alone with his friends in his mother 's car , you know the patois : it 's the worst ham of the class outside the boss 's office when the best-lookin secretary from the class of 20 years before gives him a trial-and-conviction-with-undeniable-malice in the flash of her angry eyes . )