Archie thinks Wolfe hid the truth for longer than he needed to because he – like Archie, apparently – hates the NIA. Wolfe says it's because he didn't want Phoebe Gunther's hard work to go to waste. Archie basically goes “Nuts!” to this.
I didn't read it that way at all! I thought Archie's last line meant "oh, well, I was planning to badger you about your ethics, but if you did it for Phoebe Gunther then fine."
I also like that it's “Golden Bantam!”, which is both a funny name and a hilarious thing for Archie to know off the top of his head.
Isn't it, though. And it makes an interesting contrast with that line of Wolfe's in The League of Frightened Men that liviapennpointed out, about how Dora Chapin attends Mrs. Burton to "do something to her hair."
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I didn't read it that way at all! I thought Archie's last line meant "oh, well, I was planning to badger you about your ethics, but if you did it for Phoebe Gunther then fine."
I also like that it's “Golden Bantam!”, which is both a funny name and a hilarious thing for Archie to know off the top of his head.
Isn't it, though. And it makes an interesting contrast with that line of Wolfe's in The League of Frightened Men that