“Shouldn’t think so,” said Nigel carelessly.
“What then?” asked Bertha, laughing.
“Scotch, probably.”
“Very likely, if he’s clever. They say all the clever people come from Scotland,” Charlie remarked.
“And the cleverer they are, the sooner they come, I suppose,” said Bertha. “Fancy the MacFuturist in a kilt!”
“But where does he come from … where does he really live?” continued Charlie, who seemed to have a special, suspicious curiosity on the subject.
“Rapallo,” said Bertha.
“Where’s that?”
“The first turning to the left on the map as you go to Monte Carlo,” said Nigel.
“But what did he say—was he very odd and peculiar?”