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| 10 | 497 | In any event, they concurred with my judgment, and so the View more quotes about matter">matter was settled, over drinks, and the clinking of glasses, in a dimly lit bar in Manhattan, that is, a drinking place in an area on the planet Earth. |
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| 10 | 494 | Although the final choice was mine, I thought it judicious to subject it to the consideration of two of my associates, prominent in business in New York City, aware of my concerns and interests in certain matters, and muchly aware through personal experience, as they were clients of hers, of Miss Wentworth's personality, techniques, practices, and activities. |
| 10 | 495 | These were two, of course, of presumably several, who understood quite well what she was trying to do, and, for their amusement, or in their contempt, had let her think that they had been taken in, so to speak, that they were, as many others, the unwitting dupes of her charm and beauty. |
| 10 | 496 | They were also aware, of course, that my primaries often make use of such women. |
| 10 | 497 | In any event, they concurred with my judgment, and so the matter was settled, over drinks, and the clinking of glasses, in a dimly lit bar in Manhattan, that is, a drinking place in an area on the planet Earth. |
| 10 | 498 | Miss Wentworth would strike two targets with one arrow, so to speak, a transitory purpose of interest to my primaries in the north and the satisfaction of an order from a new and valued client, currently in the same area". |
| 10 | 499 | "Excellent," said Lord Nishida. |
| 10 | 500 | "All that remained then," said Thrasilicus, "was to waft the fantasy of wealth before the greedy, unscrupulous, shapely Miss Wentworth. |