“I am rather sorry you mentioned our possible partnership to Lady Selina. From Brian’s letter he seems to take it for granted that the thing is cut and dried.”
“And it isn’t?”
“The pitch—I spent four hours on it—looks bumpy. By the way, who is your Sanitary Inspector?”
Pawley made a grimace.
“Um! An insanitary person, who doesn’t inspect.”
“Eats out of the hand of Authority.”
“An occasional luncheon.”
“Dines with the big farmers?”
“You seem to know our little ways.”
“I worked in Essex before I went to Poplar.”