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"
"Will you wait a minute while I look through
the manuscript?"
He took it up and glanced down the pages. A
dissatisfied frown settled on his face.
"Yes, of course, you are perfectly right. The
thing's written like a cafe chantant skit, not a
political satire. But what's a man to do? If I
write decently the public won't understand it;
they will say it's dull if it isn't spiteful enough."
"Don't you think spitefulness manages to be
dull when we get too much of it?"
He threw a keen, rapid glance at her, and burst
out laughing.
"Apparently the signora belongs to the dreadful
category of people who are always right!
Then if I yield to the temptation to be spiteful, I
may come in time to be as dull as Signora Grassini?
Heavens, what a fate! No, you needn't
frown. I know you don't like me, and I am going
to keep to business. What it comes to, then,
is practically this: if I cut out the personalities and
leave the essential part of the thing as it is, the
committee will very much regret that they can't
take the responsibility of printing it.


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