“I hope the attorney will not put me through a cross-examination.”
“That depends upon how you have been behaving, Mr. Henderson. I'm not very cross yet. Now, sit there so that I can look at you and see how honest you are.”
“Do you want me to put on my business or my evening expression?”
“Oh, the first, if you mean business.”
“Well, your stocks are going up.”
“That's nice. You are so lucky! Everything goes up with you. Do you know what they say of you.
“Nothing bad, I hope.”
“That everything you touch turns to gold. That you will be one of the nabobs of New York in ten years.”
“That's a startling destiny.”
“Isn't it? I don't like it.” The girl seemed very serious. “I'd like you to be distinguished. To be in the Cabinet. To be minister—go to England. But one needs a great deal of money for that, to go as one ought to go. What a career is open to a man in this country if he has money!”