“Sit down and tell me all about him,” she commanded.
“I met him once, when Ham had the yacht at Bar Harbor.”
“And how did he strike you?”
“As somewhat wrapped up in himself,” said Nancy.
We laughed together.
“Oh, I fell a victim,” she went on. “I might have sailed off with him, if he had asked me.”
“I'm surprised he didn't ask you.”
“I suspect that it was not quite convenient,” she said. “Women are secondary considerations to sultans, we're all very well when they haven't anything more serious to occupy them. Of course that's why they fascinate us. What did he want with you, Hugh?”
“He was evidently afraid that the government would win the coal roads suit unless I was retained.”
“More laurels!” she sighed. “I suppose I ought to be proud to know you.”