Prather frowned again.
"Oh... Yes, Yes, I think I remember who you mean. Yes. He was here, all right. What about him?"
Smith raised his freckled face.
"How's Shanghai these days?"
Prather blinked.
Harrison said: "Specifically, 903 Bubbling Well Road."
Prather blinked again. The effect was rather like raising and lowering a curtain rapidly over thickly curved lenses.
"I don't know what you're talking about, of course."
"Ah?" Smith said.
"Oh?" Harrison said.