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 "No, we'll tackle the stabilization of the florin first. That presents fewer complexities. For the Herr President I suggest perfect informality—knickerbockers or whatever you please. You must not agitate yourself about niceties of deportment. I'll take care of all that. Fräulein Nyla, I think, should dress for dinner, because youth and beauty are so well set off by decolleté."

"I had not supposed," said the President, "that the League would be so attentive to detail."

"What the League desires is gaiety. After these painful years a little guileless merriment will be the best possible tonic for business. The last thing Ramsay Macdonald said to me was, Tell them to be sprightly. It will reassure the foreign investors who are going to buy the Illyrian bonds."

"That must have been the next-to-the-last thing he said," observed Nyla.

"They have said so many things at Geneva, possibly I get the exact order confused.—I think