It was probable that Henshaw would recall him and praise the work he had done.

But the director merely rolled unseeing eyes over him as he seated himself, and continued his speech to the man Merton had before seen him with, the grizzled dark man with the stubby gray mustache whom he called Governor.

Merton wondered if he could be the governor of California, but decided not.

Perhaps an ex-governor.
"She's working out well," he was saying.

"I consider it one of the best continuities Belmore has done.