‘He is giving you a job, then, Adam?’
‘Well , of course. I’m going to be his confidential secretary. The pickings should be pretty good.
You’ll find that out, too. Of course it won’t be a permanent thing. I don’t think the chap will last much more than five or six years at the rate he’s spending his money. But you and I will be able to feather our nests pretty well by then.’
‘I’m glad you’ve got a job, Adam. I hope you’ll be very successful, and have a lot of pickings.’
He looked at her slim back suspiciously.
‘I’ll take good care I am successful,’ he said shortly. ‘But never mind about me. I told him you’d cal at his hotel tomorrow and have lunch with him. Naturally he’s anxious to get to know you as soon as possible.’
‘I’m sorry to disappoint him, but I won’t be able to go,’ Eve said, still with her back turned.
‘But you can’t have anything more important to do than to see him,’ Gil is said sharply. ‘You must go.’
She turned then, and he was startled to see how white she was, and how her eyes glittered.
‘Do you realise what you are suggesting?’ she asked, in a cold, level ed voice. ‘Do you realise this man’s coloured?’