He might have been counting the photographs, but he looked at the flowers with detachment.

"Who's coming ?" "Mrs.Medwin." "American ?" "Dear no!" "Then what are you doing for her ?" "I work for every one," she promptly returned.
"For every one who pays?
So I suppose.

Yet isn't it only we who do pay ?" There was a drollery, not lost on her, in the way his queer presence lent itself to his emphasised plural.
"Do you consider that YOU do ?" At this, with his deliberation, he came back to his charming idea.
"Only try me, and see if I can't be MADE to.

Work me in." On her sharply presenting her back he stared a little at the clock.

"If I come at seven may I stay to dinner ?" It brought her round again.