Chapter 20

Indeed now he eyed the backs of them with an anxiety he did not try to hide. "What was I saying to you?" "You were telling me that women found your fascinations irresistible?" replied Ashenden dryly. "Once all the same I found a woman who resisted me. I saw her first in a house, a _casa de mujeres_ in Mexico City, she was going down the stairs as I went up; she was not very beautiful, I had had a hundred more beautiful, but she had something that took my fancy and I told the old woman who kept the house to send he…