I'm American, and I'm here on a big Government proposition.

I hate to trouble you, but if you'd send a man to show us how to strike the city I'd be very much in your debt.' Her eyes never left my face.

'Will you come into the car ?' she said in English.

'At the house I will give you a servant to direct you.' She drew in the skirts of her fur cloak to make room for me, and in my muddy boots and sopping clothes I took the seat she pointed out.

She said a word in Turkish to Sandy, switched off the light, and the car moved on.
Women had never come much my way, and I knew about as much of their ways as I knew about the Chinese language.