The Pronounced Effect - How do you say 'Cthulhu'?

From Collection Title: The Man Who Was Secrett and Other Stories • [Mr. Secrett] • (2013) • collection by John Brunner

Novellet. An insecure young woman, slated to deliver a paper at an academic conference in the place of her father and dreading the predicted attack of her father's academic adversary, is taken under the wing of a man who fills her with confidence.