"
He had a queer expression. I suppose he regarded it as a joke, my attaching
apparently so much importance to a thing he cared nothing about. "You've
always had that sort of thing," said I, "and so you don't appreciate it.
You're like a respectable woman. She can't imagine what all the fuss over
women keeping a good reputation is about. Well, just let her lose it!"
"Perhaps," said he.
"And," I went on, "you can have the rule about the waiting list suspended,
and can move me up and get me in at once."
"We don't do things in quite such a hurry at the Travelers," said he,
laughing. "However, we'll try to comply with your commands."
His generous, cordial offer made me half ashamed of the plot I had
underneath my submission about the coal mines--a plot to get into the coal
combine in order to gather the means to destroy it, and perhaps reconstruct
it with myself in control. I made up my mind that, if he continued to act
squarely, I would alter those plans.
"If you don't mind," Langdon was going on, "I'll make a suggestion--merely
a suggestion. It might not be a bad idea for you to arrange to--to
eliminate some of the--the popular features from your--brokerage business.
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