“See here, Margot, I think I’ll have to change my system.”
“Why, what’s the matter with it?”
“Well ... you see I have to walk about so much between the tables. It tires me out.”
“I thought you didn’t like to ‘win too easily’?”
“Oh, I don’t mind not winning easily.”
“Ah! you’ve been losing.”
“No, I haven’t. My capital’s intact and I have five hundred francs of gain. But ... well, I’m tired of it. I want a change.”
“What are you going to try now?”
“I call it a pattern system. You see I set the bank a task....”
“I don’t see.”