5: Line For Two Girls
CALLAGHAN DROVE the Jaguar into the garage in the Berkeley Square Mews. He switched off the engine, lit a cigarette, relaxed in the comfortable driving-seat. He was thinking about Desirée Gardell.
People had such damned funny motives for the things they did, thought Callaghan. Especially women. Sometimes women were much more logical than men. If they were not they were difficult to analyse— especially women who believed in their intuition or who were inclined to be impulsive like Desirée.
She was much too beautiful to be logical. Beautiful women seldom were. They started off by being beautiful, by knowing the fact, by expecting rather nice things to happen to them. Only plain women realised that life was a matter of reasoning, that if you hadn't got looks you'd got
