"What makes you think so?"
"Because you hadn't been gone an hour before she was in here and wanted to know if she could get into this building on the ground floor. She said she had a few thousands that she wanted to put in a good thing."
"You told her 'yes,' didn't you?" Elijah's voice was eager.
"I told her 'no.'"
"You ought to have taken her up."
"I don't know about that. This business is a sure thing one way, but in another, it isn't. It's a big thing. If we can swing it, it's all right. If we can't, it's going to go hard with the small fry. I may want to look into those big black eyes of hers again sometime."
"Why haven't you introduced me to Helen Lonsdale before?"
Winston was surprised, more at the manner of Elijah's question than at the question itself. He shifted the onus of the surprise to Elijah's shoulders.
"Why should I?" he asked bluntly.
"That's a Yankee trick, not a Californian's," retorted Elijah.