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Does Joan know Peggy's secret?
I swear I touched nothing and the darn post got away from me! As I started to say, Joan strikes me as a pretty controlling office manager who rules the lowly secretaries with an iron fist in an metal gauntlet. I think it would have been entirely in character for her to have tried to find Peggy and ask her why she did not come back to work after having been given a promotion. Don Draper went looking for her and found her, why not Joan? She might not have actually talked to Peggy, but if Joan contacted Peggy's family, they just might have been in such a state of shock over the unexpected pregnancy and birth that they would have spilled the beans to Joan, especially if she came across as Peggy's sympathetic friend. We know she is very good at worming things out of people if she suspects something. I feel sure she would have suspected something when Peggy did not show up for work as expected.
....great question, and a solid line of logic.
my guess, in a place like Sterling Cooper, is that joan, as office manager, would have had an immediate conversation with Draper, Peggy's boss.
he may or may not have gotten the impression that this was a sensitive matter (we don't know because they haven't shown us yet) and said he would handle it himself. which apparently he did.
that kind of sounds like Draper to me - low key and confidential. i mean, he promoted Peggy partly because he feels an odd kinship with her...
i would guess following that scenario, he simply told Miss Holloway that Peggy had a family emergency and had to take a leave of absence for two months.....or something.
how long had Peggy been IN the hospital when Draper came to visit?
that's the question i would start with before the other dominoes can be set up.
...with all of that being said, the writers probably have something else entirely in store for us!
they want us to be surprised, and they are doing a good job.
I feel that Joan knows, she is hollding the information in her bag of tricks until she needs it. She knows EVERYTHING in that office! Did you notice how she knew the group went into Bert's office to look at the painting and confronted Jane with it the next morning?
Oh, yes, I remember her doing that phone business with the priest. I noticed she did not really disguise her voice, though, so maybe Father I'll Harass You 'Til the End of Time and Then You'll Beg to Confess was not really fooled.
I don't think Joan knows. Don knows though. But stupid Peggy doesn't know he knows. She had better watchout listening to Bobby Barrett or she'll be out in the street.
I love Joan's character, but there is no upside for her at Sterling Cooper. Unlike Peggy who sees Joan's job as pitiful, Joan sees herself as very successful. She really does need to sit at home and eat bonbons. There is no real depth there. She is like the head madam and keeps all the girls in line.
I would like it better if married one of the executives and became someone else.
Did you guys notice how Peggy answers her phone as a secretary and the pretends to come on as herself. This is classic. Means she is eager to move up and is very strategic.
I could see Peggy dumping that little boy on Pete's doorstep and leaving him. She is a conniving little witch. But I like her too.