Possible Clues:

• Utterly preoccupied
• Hung up
• Preoccupied with
• Consumed (with)
• Overly preoccupied (with)
• With a thing about getting the bosses confused over who is the editor
• Perhaps the boss can think of nothing else with the Dee
• Being excessively concerned with something
• Does Bess panic' with bee in her bonnet?
• Fanatical old boy being curbed by son and daughter