"No, but Mr. Livingston or Mr. Devereux can tell you; either will speak for me."
Lady Garribardine was amused; she digressed a little from her cross-examination.
"You found Jews agreeable to work with?"
"Very. You know where you are with them. They do not pretend, and they are very generous."
"In-deed!"
"Yes—people have a preconceived notion of Jews, I find—quite faulty as a rule—they know what to pay for—they are far less fools than other races. I respect them."
"That is most interesting."
Katherine was silent again.
"Why did you leave them?"—after a pause in which Lady Garribardine was pitilessly scrutinising her possible secretary.
"Because I had learned all that I could there, and I wanted a new vista——"