Helen laughed. "These magazine stories are the most absurd things that ever were printed."
"I think so myself."
"What makes you read them then?"
"I was just doing it to pass the time."
"That's flattering."
"Flattering?"
"Yes."
Bauer was silent thirty seconds. Then he said, "Flattering to whom?"
"To me, isn't it?"
Bauer's face was a study. Helen laughed again.