Westrip.

Not known them!

Miss Tracer.

[Crossing to the writing-table and laying the press-cuttings upon it.] Guileless youth! Wait till you've breathed the air of this establishment a little longer.

Westrip.

[Puzzled.] But if he hasn't known them, why should he——?

Miss Tracer.

For the sake of figuring among a lot of prominent personages, of course.

Westrip.

[Incredulously.] Oh, Miss Tracer!