Billy Cox, a district manager of Brooklyn Stickball Company, was investigating complaints of financial improprieties of the company’s Brooklyn office. He called at the home of Pee Wee Reese, the vice-president of that office, who expressed the opinion that part of the trouble was caused by the theft of office supplies by Roy Campanella, another employee. Campanella was later discharged and sued Reese for slander. Was he liable?