"You do it very well, very well indeed," commented the journalist. "But you can't fool me, and so you'd better give up trying."
"I say," remarked Miss Arminster to Marchmont, "you're making an awful fool of yourself."
The representative of the Daily Leader shrugged his shoulders.
"Won't you consent to let us go, without threshing the whole thing out?" she asked.
"What do you take me for?"
"Well, as you please," she said resignedly. "Put your questions; we'll answer them."
"Is it best to humour him?" enquired his Lordship in a low voice.
"It's the only way," she replied. "Give him string enough, and see the cat's-cradle he'll weave out of it."
"Now," said the journalist cheerfully to the Bishop, "perhaps you'll deny that you spent a month or six weeks in the United States this spring?"
"A month," acquiesced his Lordship.