"I couldn't, I was broke, that was why."
"You don't usually shirk."
"No, I try not to. It didn't occur to me in that light."
"Ah!" She gave a deep sigh. "You're the best man, I think, I've ever met. You want to know where she is?"
"Yes."
"Then you have a good appointment?"
"Well, a firm is manufacturing my engine. We think it's bound to go."
"Charlie's got an engine, too." She was watching him very closely.
"Has he?" Carstairs was rather interested.
"The drawings are in his room. I'll go and get them."