"Ah, yes," said Mr. Strong. "Let's get on."
"What had we decided?"
"Only Prang's article so far."
"But you say you have your doubts about it?"
Mr. Strong hesitated. "Only about its selling-power," he said with a little shrug. "We must sell the paper, you see. It's not paying its way yet."
"Well, I'm sure that's not Mr. Prang's fault," Amory retorted. "He's practically made the export circulation."
"You mean the Bombay circulation? Yes, I suppose he has. I don't deny it."
"You can't deny it. Since Prang began to write for us we've done awfully well in Bombay."
To that too, Mr. Strong assented. Then Amory, after a moment's pause, spoke quietly. She did not like to think of her editor as jealous of his own contributors.
"I know you don't like Mr. Prang," she said, looking fixedly at the asbestos log.