Everyone in here being like the secretary is sus. Yeah, no duh. That's kind of the point of literally everything the author did in describing him. Oh, she vaguely recalls him? Oh, he has this aside comment about how he thought she was naive? Clap, clap, clap. You're really figuring things out if you noticed that the secretary is suspicious.
The real question is not whether he's suspicious. It's whether he's going to actually do anything. Will this be cliche? Will this take a different route?
And then we see the grandfather actually abusing his power. Yes, only slightly in that he's trying to get a tutor for his daughter. However, he's still abusing his power, clearly.