26/57 You're a lucky man, padre, not to be led into temptation by every damned girl you meet. I don't know what they see in me," he continued mournfully, "and, at this hour of the afternoon, I don't know what I see in them." "Nor do I," said Langton. "Have a drink, Graham? We leave at six-thirty, and get in somewhere about four a.m.next morning, so far as I can make out." "You don't sound over-cheerful," said Graham. I'm fed up over this damned lecture stunt! The thing's condemned to failure from the start, and at any rate it's no time for it. |