"All right," said Quayle. "Well, he's probably rather stunned with the shock. He was probably delighted, like an over-grown schoolboy who suddenly realises that something he thought was entirely out of his reach is not so very far away after all. That's all right. But he hasn't had a chance to think."
"And what is going to happen when he has had a chance to think?" she asked.
Quayle said: "Fells is an intelligent, sensible, man. He's going to realise that there are still quite a lot of people knocking about who know him, and anyway, even if there were only one or two people who knew him and knew his story, he's going to think it would be a pretty low-down trick to marry you. He knows people would talk. He knows it would come to your ears. He can guess what the results would be. It's all
