“And left you in complete charge?”
“Yes.”
“She has a very high opinion of you, Mr. Lam, a regard which amounts to affection.”
“The pay checks don’t show it.”
He smiled. “Well, I want you to know about her condition. I don’t want to alarm her unnecessarily so I’m not telling her. But if it should become necessary, I want you to get her Los Angeles doctor to tell her.”
“What about her condition?”
“You knew, of course, how much she weighed?”
“Not exactly. She told me once that everything she ate turned to fat. She said she could go on a diet of pure water and put on weight.”
The doctor took it literally. “Oh, hardly,” he said. “What she undoubtedly meant was that her digestive enzymes are highly efficient, and she—”
“Squeezes the last drop of nourishment out of every bite of food.”