"She's rather wonderful. She has a charming and attractive figure, a delightful voice, an almost perfect carriage and quite beautiful eyes. Her taste in dress is exquisite."
"Dear me," she murmured. "She's quite wonderful, isn't she? It must be marvellous to look like that so much that a man remembers everything so well. Your description makes me feel quite a frump."
"I'm sorry about that," said Callaghan, "but there isn't anything you can do very much about it, is there?"
"No," she said. Her voice had an acid tinge. "So I take it that while you represent Miss Varette you're not very inclined to investigate Lionel for mother?"
Callaghan said amiably: "I don't like working for two people whose interests might clash. That's all."
"I see." Her voice was sarcastic. "But if mother offered
