"Good sauce, isn't it ?" he said.
The epicure entered a protest.

"Good ?" he repeated.

"My dear fellow, it's absolute perfection.

I don't like to cast a slur on English cookery.

But think of melted butter, and tell me if anybody but a foreigner (I don't like foreigners, but I give them their due) could have produced this white wine sauce?
So you really had no particular motive in going to America ?" "On the contrary, I had a very particular motive.