73/79 "It isn't good enough ?" But he instantly took himself up. "Of course he wants--as I do--to treat you with tact!" "Oh it's all right," Vanderbank immediately said. "Your 'tact'-- yours and his--is marvellous, and Nanda's greatest of all." Mitchy's momentary renewal of stillness was addressed, he somehow managed not obscurely to convey, to the last clause of his friend's speech. "If you're not sure," he presently resumed, "why can't you frankly ask him ?" Vanderbank again, as the phrase is, "mooned" about a little. "Because I don't know that it would do." "What do you mean by 'do' ?" "Well, that it would be exactly--what do you call it? |