'You kept up her acquaintance? The girl's, I mean,' Merton asked.

'We have occasionally met. In fact--'

'Yes, I know, as you said lately,' Merton remarked. 'That's one, anyhow,
and there is Mary Willoughby, who got a second in history when I was up.
_She_ would do. Better business for her than the British Museum. I know
three or four.'

'I know five or six. But what for?' Logan insisted.

'To help us in supplying the widely felt want, which is my discovery,'
said Merton.

'And that is?'

'Disentanglers--of both sexes. A large and varied staff, calculated to
meet every requirement and cope with every circumstance.' Merton quoted
an unwritten prospectus.

'I don't follow. What the deuce is your felt want?'

'What we were talking about.'

'Ground bait for salmon?' Logan reverted to his idea.

'No. Family rows about marriages. Nasty letters. Refusals to recognise
the choice of a son, a daughter, or a widowed but youthful old parent,
among the upper classes. Harsh words. Refusals to allow meetings or