Talk:Champagne for One
Chapter 1, page 3 (Bantam: 1996)
If I hadn’t had my full share of ego I might also have been curious as to why he had picked on me, since we were not chums, but of course that was no problem. If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you’re surprised if a National Chairman calls to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you’re not really surprised.
Chapter 1, page 9
He [Fritz] aimed a knife at me. “I know you so well, Archie. As well as you know me, maybe. This is just talk and I enjoy it. You need no suggestions. Programme?” He slashed at it with the knife. “Ha! You will go there and look at them and see, and act as you feel. You always do. If it is too painful you will leave. If one of the girls is enchanting and the men surround her, you will get her aside and tomorrow you will take her to lunch. If you are bored you will eat too much, no matter what the food is like. If you are offended – There’s the elevator!” He looked at the clock. “My God, it’s eleven!”
Wolfe thinks the worst, chapter 1, page 11
“I didn’t know she was cultivating you, or you her.”
