"A collaborator?"
"Yes."
"I'm so sorry that I could not be useful."
"Would you try?"
"What is the use? I am utterly unskilled and inexperienced."
"I'd be very glad to have you try," he repeated.[103]
XI
After a moment she rose, went over and knelt down in the sand before the miniature city, studying the situation. All she could see of the lead hero in the bowler hat were his legs protruding from the drain.