“Indeed! what association?”
“The International.”
“Ah, I have heard of that.”
Lebeau turned his green spectacles full on Graham’s face as he said slowly, “And what do you think of it?”
Graham prudently checked the disparaging reply that first occurred to him, and said, “I know so little about it that I would rather ask you.”
“I think it might become formidable if it found able leaders who knew how to use it. Pardon me, how came you to know of this cafe? Were you recommended to it?”
“No; I happened to be in this neighbourhood on business, and walked in, as I might into any other cafe.”
“You don’t interest yourself in the great social questions which are agitated below the surface of this best of all possible worlds?”
“I can’t say that I trouble my head much about them.”
“A game at dominos before M. Georges arrives?”