“The same.”
“Have you met him yet?”
“Not yet; he hasn’t been on the job in person since I came. I understand he has gone East. But he has left some pretty able fault-finders to represent him, I can assure you. If there is anything in the category of crime that they don’t accuse us of committing, it is something they have temporarily forgotten. But you mustn’t make me talk shop all the time. I’m sure it bores you, only you are too good-natured to say so.”
“A man’s work, if it is at all worth while, ought not to bore anybody. It is your life, isn’t it?”
“It was, up to just a little while ago.”
“What happened a little while ago?”
“You came.”
“That is another of the sayings that doesn’t fit,” she warned him.
“All right; we’ll talk about something else. How long can you stay?”
“I don’t know. Father is calling it his vacation, and threatens to go trout-fishing in the mountains.”