It seemed to be run by a small gang with quite a number of assorted axes to grind.

There was some foreign financier--a person of position whom she knew (a noble man in the _best_ sense, Callan said); there was some politician (she knew him too, and he was equally excellent, so Callan said), Mr.Churchill himself, an artist or so, an actor or so--and Callan.

They all wanted a little backing, so it seemed.

Callan, of course, put it in another way.
The Great--Moral--Purpose turned up, I don't know why.

He could not think he was taking me in and she obviously knew more about the people concerned than he did.