'That's quite true.

Whatever you are, Feist, you're no fool.

We may as well have the pretty lady's bare word, anyway.' 'If you approve, I'm nearly sure I can get it,' Feist answered.

'At least, I can get a statement which she won't deny if it's published in the right way.

I can furnish the materials for an article on her that's sure to please her--born lady, never a word against her, highly connected, unassailable private life, such a contrast to several other celebrities on the stage, immensely charitable, half American, half English--every bit of that all helps, you see--and then an anecdote or two thrown in, and just the bare facts about her having had to escape in a hurry from a prominent millionaire in a New York hotel--fairly ran for her life and turned the key against him.