8/16 Now high politics, as a psychological study, to an outsider are a very different matter. But I am digressing. I did not invite you here to discuss trivialities like these. I want to ask you--of course, you will not answer me unless you like--whether you are connected, professionally or otherwise, with the Zastrow affair ?" M.Hendry looked down at the toes of his perfectly-shaped boots for a moment or two. Then he raised his head and said good-humouredly: "Professor, I know that there is no more honourable man in the world than you, but even from you I must ask frankly your reasons for asking that question ?" "You have a perfect right to do that, my dear sir," was the quiet reply. |