26/191 Then you do like him ?" "What has that got to do with it, Basil ?" "Nothing! nothing! That is, he was boring away about that scheme of his again. He's got it into definite shape at last." "What shape ?" March outlined it for her, and his wife seized its main features with the intuitive sense of affairs which makes women such good business-men when they will let it. The only thing I didn't like about Mr.Fulkerson was his always wanting to chance things. But what have you got to do with it ?" "What have I got to do with it ?" March toyed with the delay the question gave him; then he said, with a sort of deprecatory laugh: "It seems that Fulkerson has had his eye on me ever since we met that night on the Quebec boat. |