I smiled, told him to keep his eyes on the elevators. If Mrs. Evans came down he was to go along with her. I said she’d probably come down alone, but if she didn’t, to stick anyway. And if there was a split-up he was to tail her. He nodded.
“Her face seems a little familiar,” he said. “Maybe she’s had it used in the papers.”
I looked puzzled and told him I didn’t follow society doings. He just nodded and smiled. I said I was going up to my room and wash, and he said that the last time I had been going up for a nap.
He was thinking things out, and I didn’t like that so much.
“The hundred a day covers just this and that,” I reminded. “You don’t have to mastermind all over the place for it.”
He looked hurt. But he just nodded his head. I went up to the lobby floor, took an elevator to th
