18/32 "They'll tell you in _Who's Who ?_ that my sports are riding, fishing, and shooting--that describes a man in England; it doesn't describe me. I don't ride; I don't fish or shoot; I used to; that's another matter. I only ride an occasional hobby now--fish for work on the papers, and shoot-- Lord knows what I shoot! Nothing, I suppose. I belong to the National Liberal Club for the Library, to the Savage where you pass along an editor as you would a christening mug, and to the National Sporting, because there's a beast in every man, thank God!" He had won her. The rattle of that conversation had driven all thoughts of doubt out of her mind. |