Agent Newbie has manuscript, Agent Legend wants exclusive

Sorry for the new thread, but I have a new Situation. Thank you all for your incredible patience and the thought you've put into my several Situations so far.

So: writer friend referred me to her agency, headman passed me off to Junior Brand New Agent. All well and good.

I kept querying elsewhere, thanks to the great advice I got in this forum. The same day my first batch of e-mails went out, Big Huge Legendary Agent responded to me and said she wants an exclusive. I told her someone else already has the MS on referral but I sent the file anyway. She e-mailed back! I guess she had looked at some pages. Wants to know all about me, see more of my writing -- but she still wants that exclusive.

I'm curious, is there a way to do that?

It's all quite encouraging but I don't even know if she's read the whole manuscript and I am by no means considering her a done deal.

Old Hack said:

you can promise not to send out any more fulls until the exclusive is over (you can continue to query); and you can promise to let her know if the junior agent makes an offer, and to not accept that offer until she's had time to catch up.

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Great advice. I did as you said; she responded within an hour and said she's going to read it and get back to me within two weeks.

Thanks so much for helping. Great community here.