Gay Phoenix
“They commonly dined together, and this was an index of the degree of control which Povey’s secretary had come to exercise over his life and affairs. Butter – Povey had freely to acknowledge it – was a very smart chap. Although prone at times to regress upon the racy idiom of the folk, he could now put up (or so Povey judged) a very credible appearance as a minor associate of important persons. He talked a kind of modified posh which, although impure to Povey’s authentic U-type ear, was perfectl...y adequate to his own middling station. But what was chiefly remarkable about him was his flair as a psychologist. ‘You’ve got to take them the way they tick’ was his constant advice to his employer – and he would then explain how they did tick. This ability was not, indeed, a wholly adequate substitute for any sort of knowledge of how Big Business is run. At least in the narrower technical sense, his ignorance here exceeded even that of Arthur Povey himself. On the other hand, Butter’s former criminal career had for many years transacted itself at least within hail of robberies, frauds, forgeries and protection rackets on a very large scale, and he seemed not to find any very different climate obtaining in the world of high finance to which he had now been introduced.MoreLess
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