“I"m not thick, old boy, and I couldn"t give a toss about how tired you are, or whether your balls are twisted in your knickers. Nor am I an insensitive lover, as you insinuated. I have, however, as little time for egocentric Americans as you have for true, blue-bloodied English aficionados of the female species. Plant your flag and get to the point! I"m a busy man.”
“An impatient man. Well, I"m much the same I guess. She plucked it from the sky, Harry P. “Just tell Lord Harry; Percy Crow.” Said she would talk only to the Paterson of noble English bloodstock, no common Yank like me.”
“Just tell Lord Harry; Percy Crow.”“Were they her words or yours?”
“First bit hers, second, my swing at it. Why?”
“Could you tax your overworked grey matter and recall precisely what the two of you were di
