“The more I thought it over, the more peculiar it sounded. It began to look to me very much as though you were — well—”

“Trying to slip something over?” I asked.

“Yes.”

“So what?”

“So I came to see you.”

“That’s all?”

“Isn’t that enough?”

The elevator cage slid to a stop. I said, “Probably not. We’ll talk down in the lobby.”

“Isn’t that terribly public?”

“Yes.”