“Oh,” she said, “HE isn't interesting. That's his trouble!”

“You mean his trouble not to—”

She interrupted me, speaking with sudden, surprising energy, “I mean he's a man of no imagination.”

“No imagination!” I exclaimed.

“None in the world! Not one ounce of imagination! Not one grain!”

“Then who,” I cried—“or what—is Simpledoria?”

“Simple—what?” she said, plainly mystified.

“Simpledoria.”

“Simpledoria?” she repeated, and laughed. “What in the world is that?”

“You never heard of it before?”