"Oh, more than that, Jim. I like him."
"Enough to marry him?"
"Not at present.... But you never can tell. I await the event. I haven't anything else to do."
He nodded, smiling.
"I rather imagined him to be the sort of man you'd come to care for.... I've heard one or two men speak of him recently."
"You mean that you made inquiries?"
A tint of red touched the city pallor of his skin.
"Yes, I took that, liberty."
"It was a friendly one. The reports were excellent, of course."
"Excellent. He must be a good deal of a man."