We slid into our office, past two women discussing the X factor, an apparently undefined quality their firm felt they lacked.

Brian Donlevy is a wealthy industrialist who survives an attempted murder when his wife's boyfriend is killed in a car crash.

Murtaugh: Honey, what’s this on my tie? She looks. Trish: An ugly spot? Murtaugh: Thanks. Sharp as a pin. Trish: I’m thinking of going on ‘Jeopardy’.

Toksoun, a fortified place, some miles nearer Korla, on the main road, was occupied by 4,000 jigits and 2,000 sarbazes with five guns. Hacc Kuli Beg had command here. At Korla there were also about 1,500 men, who were brought up to the front shortly after Captain Kuropatkine's departure.