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white things, and sunshine if I get a break. Anyway, I thought you had to study. What about that test?'
    'Very well, I do have to study.'
    'And in case it might compromise your standing as a future Justice of the Supreme Court to be seen riding through the streets with an orphan, I've got an idea myself.' Beulah was on the lope. 'You can take the subway, it will get you home to your work just as quick, and Mr. Stevens and I will go somewhere and talk. Or somewhere and dance.' She put a hand on my arm. 'I feel guilty, Mr. Stevens, because we haven't even mentioned your Community Health Center. Couldn't we discuss that and dance at the same time?'
    For a minute it looked as if I would have to crawl from under, but love found a way. The law student filed objections, motions, demurrers, and protestations, and if she had demanded a stipulation that girls with no parents shall be presumed to be descended from Julius Caesar in direct line she would probably have got it. It ended with us all piling in the convertible and heading uptown.
    Somewhere in the Seventies she mentioned health, and I sidetracked it by saying I'd mail her some literature which would give her the address to send a check to if she felt like it. All was serene and even cordial by the time we stopped at her address, where they both got out, and I declined an invitation to come up for a glass of something, and rolled west toward Broadway.
    When I entered the office, Wolfe was seated over by the filing cabinets, with one of the drawers open, looking over plant germination records. I sat down at my desk and asked him, 'Did our client call Goodyear?'
    'No.'
    'He's missing something. And he narrowly missed already having a son-in-law. Morton wanted me to drive them to Maryland to get tied. Tonight. She pretended that she prefers it another way, but her real reason was that now that she has met me she doesn't want him at all. She suggested he should take the subway and I should take her places. I'll have to get out of it somehow. I can't very well explain to her that I don't want Dazy Perrit for a father-in-law.'
    'Pfui. She's dumpy.'
    'Not so bad. Nothing that couldn't be adjusted.' Yawning, I glanced at my wristwatch. It said eleven-fourteen. I glanced at the wall clock, a double-take habit I have been trying to get rid of for years, and it said the same.
    'I wish Perrit would call,' I remarked. 'If we can toss him a few useful items we may get out of this alive. I admit the news that Beulah is engaged is nothing colossal, but at least it's fresh.'
    'We have something for him better than that,' Wolfe declared.
    I sent him a sharp glance because his tone had a smirk in it. 'Oh'We have?'
    'Yes indeed.'
    'Something happened while I was out?'
    'No. While you were here. In your presence. Evidently you missed it.'
    Like that he was unbearable. When he took that attitude I never tried to pry it out of him because (a) I didn't want to feed his vanity, and (b) I knew he had decided to keep it to himself. So I considered the conversation closed, turned to my desk, elevated the typewriter, and began banging out some routine letters.
    I was on the fifth one when the doorbell rang. Wolfe shut the drawer of the cabinet, arose, and started for the only chair he really loved, the one behind his desk.
    'Call her Angelina,' I told him as I crossed to the hall. 'It'll upset her.'

Nero Wolfe 14 - Trouble in Triplicate
    VII
    Violet Angelina Sally sat in the red leather chair with one knee arranged over the other. Wolfe's gaze, under half-closed lids, was directed straight at her, and she was meeting it. They had been that way for fully half a minute. Neither of them had spoken a word.
    'Like it?' Violet asked with a high-pitched laugh.
    'I was trying to decide,' Wolfe muttered, 'whether to let you keep the twenty-four thousand, five hundred dollars you have got from Mr. Perrit or get that from you too. At least most of it.'
    Violet let out a word. Ordinarily I try to report conversations