“Of course not.”
“Are you engaged to him?”
“I think we were talking about wrist watches, weren’t we?”
“I’m trying to get a line on him,” Mason told her, “because if he bought this watch in good faith, that’s one thing, if he bought it from a crook, knowing it was stolen, that’s another thing. This wrist watch is worth fifteen hundred dollars. If he picked it up for a hundred or two, it’s a pretty good sign he knew it was stolen.”
“Well,” she said emphatically, “he didn’t pick it up for a hundred or two. Mr. Rooney is a sport and a spender.”
“We’ll talk with him when he comes, ” Mason said. “What’s your opinion of the European situation?”
“I haven’t any.”
There followed several seconds of silence, then Marjory Trenton said, “Suppose you tell me about you?”
“What about me?” Mason asked.
“You’re a lawyer?”