6/21 To the ordinary attractions of Monte Carlo he is indifferent. He is one of these thin-blooded men with principles. Cromwell would have made a lay preacher of him." "You find difficulties ?" Mr.Grex queried, with slightly uplifted eyebrows. "Or if indeed we do call them difficulties, let us say at once that they are very minor ones. Only the thing must be done neatly and without ostentation, for the sake of our friend who comes." "My own position," Mr.Draconmeyer intervened, "is, in a way, delicate. |