"Jinny," said Laura, "he's divine. However did you think of him?"
"I didn't have to think. I simply saw him. Is there anything wrong with him?"
"Not a thing."
If there had been a flaw in him Laura would have found it. Next to Tanqueray she was the best critic of the four. There followed a discussion of technical points that left Hambleby intact. Then Laura spoke again.
"How George would have loved him."
Six months after, she still spoke of Tanqueray gently, as if he were dead.
Nina broke their silence.
"Does anybody know what's become of Tanks?"
They did not answer.
"Doesn't that Nicholson man know?"