填空题 "Had a good flight?" the Chief asked.
"A bit bumpy over the Azores," Hawthorne said. 1 this occasion he had not had time to 2 from his pale gray tropical suit; the summons had come to him 3 in Kingston and a car had met him at London Airport. He 4 as close to the steam 5 as he could, but sometimes he couldn"t 6 a shiver.
"What"s that odd flower you"re 7 ?"
Hawthorne had quite forgotten 8 . He put his hand up to his lapel.
"It looks as though it had once been an orchid," the Chief said with disapproval.
"Pan American gave it to us 9 our dinner last night," Hawthorne explained. He took out the limp mauve rag and put it in the ash-tray. "With your dinner? What an odd thing to do," the Chief said, "it can hardly have improved the meal. Personally I detest orchids. Decadent thing. There was someone, wasn"t there, who wore green 10 ?"
"I only put it in my button-hole so as to clear the dinner-tray. There was so little room, with the hot-cakes and champagne and the sweet salad and the tomato soup and the chicken Maryland and ice-cream."
"What a 11 mixture. You should travel BOAC."
"You didn"t give me enough time, sir, to get a booking."
"Well, the matter is rather urgent. You know our man in Havana has been turning 12 some pretty disquieting stuff 13 ."
"He"s a good man," Hawthorne said.
"I don"t deny it. I wish we 14 more like him. What I can"t understand is how the Americans have not tumbled to anything there."
"Have you asked them, sir?"
"Of course not. I don"t 15 their discretion."
"Perhaps they don"t trust ours."