He talks to you, I know, more freely than to any other woman." "It is by chance," Penelope protested.

"I have tried to avoid him." "Then I cannot congratulate you upon your success," Mr.Harvey said grimly.
"Things have changed a little between us, perhaps," Penelope said.

"What is it that you really want ?" "I want to know this," the Ambassador said slowly.

"I want to know how Japan became assured that America had no intention of going to war with her.

In other words, I want to know whether those papers which were stolen from Fynes and poor Dicky found their way to the Japanese Embassy or into the hands of Prince Maiyo himself." "Anything else ?" she asked with a faint note of sarcasm in her tone.
"Yes," Mr.Harvey replied, "there is something else.