"I assure you I am not impressionable," he added a moment later with the cynical twist of the lips that Olga knew so well.

"And I never play with fire.

That form of amusement doesn't attract me." A sudden humorous glitter shone between Nick's half-closed eyelids.

"But even serious people burn their fingers sometimes," he observed.

"I presume you haven't proposed yet ?" "Yes, I have." Max spoke with dogged assertiveness.
Nick jerked upright.