She says that it would have made everything so much nicer for her and Chris, and that the King might have ordered some wine from his firm.' She was teasing.

He knew it, and it infuriated him.
'Oh, no doubt you're sorry too that you weren't there with the Duke and Duchess, and the King and Queen, and your cousins, the Earl and Countess,' he flung at her.
'They'll be your cousins too--by marriage.

And if you ever become a very rich man and take me back to England, you'll have to "Chris and Molly" them and to give him a big order for wine....' That mollified McKeith.
'And if I wasn't a rich man, and didn't give a big order, they wouldn't care a twopenny damn for me.' 'Molly mightn't--unless by chance you were taken up in high quarters and made the fashion--like Cecil Rhodes and "Doctor Jim," or some new edition of Buffalo Bill.

Then she'd call you "one of nature's uncrowned kings." But Chris Gaverick isn't a bad sort, if his wife would let him be natural....

They hadn't got my cablegram about you, Colin, when this was written,' she went on.