Do you admire her very much, Nigel ?" He smiled.

His manner, however, was not altogether free from self-consciousness.
"Of course I do," he admitted.

"She's a perfectly wonderful person, isn't she?
Let's get out of this Victorian environment," he added, looking around the huge apartment with its formal arrangement of furniture and its atmosphere of prim but faded elegance.

"We'll go into the smaller room and tell Brookes to bring us some cocktails and cigarettes.

Chalmers won't expect to be received formally, and Mademoiselle Karetsky will appreciate the cosmopolitan note of our welcome." "We do look a little too domestic, don't we ?" Maggie replied, as she passed through the portiere which Nigel was holding up.