"You're the very person I wanted to see," cried the reporter.
"I'm afraid I've hardly time to be interviewed just now," replied the actor shortly.
"Oh, this isn't professional. I'm off duty sometimes. I'm only human."
"Oh, are you? I supposed newspaper men were neither the one nor the other."
"Well, I wanted to talk to you for your own good."
"Is it as bad as all that?"
"Of course I know who you really are," pursued the journalist, ignoring the interruption. "And I may say confidentially that you and Miss Arminster are not the people of this party I'm after."
"Ah, that's very thoughtful of you."
"So, if I could help you two to slip off quietly—"
"Why include Miss Arminster?" queried Spotts with well-affected surprise.