He wanted a season in town!" At the idea of Jaffery yearning to play the Society butterfly I could not help laughing.

Jaffery lounging down Bond Street in immaculate vesture! Jaffery sipping tea at afternoon At Homes! Jaffery dancing till three o'clock in the morning! It was all very comic, and Arbuthnot seeing the matter in that aspect laughed too.

But, on the other hand, it was all very incomprehensible.

To Jaffery a job was a sacred affair, the meaning of his existence.

He was a Mercury who took himself seriously.
The more remote and rough and uncomfortable and dangerous his mission, the more he liked it.