You've a dashing, masterful way which no girl of her sort can long resist.

I propose that you make desperate love to Louise Merrick and so cut Arthur Weldon out of the deal entirely.

My part of the comedy will be to attract him to my side again.

Now you have the entire proposition in a nutshell." He smoked for a time in reflective silence.
"What's the girl like ?" he enquired, presently.

"Is she attractive ?" "Sufficiently so to fascinate Arthur Weldon.