Doesn't matter how good it is.

The thing to know about the _Consul_ man is this.
He's very nice to ladies--can't resist ladies; consequence is, the paper's half full of ladies' copy every week.

I know, because a cousin of mine writes for him, and most unsympathetic stuff it is.

Yet it always goes in, and she gets her three guineas a week as regularly as the day comes.

But her pull is that she knows him personally, and she's a damned pretty woman." Elfrida followed him with interest.