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“You make him sound like Our Father in Heaven — his will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.’
“That about describes him,’ she said.
“You make me curious.’
‘Oh, keep the appointment if you must,’ she said. “But be careful. Please be careful. And be more than ever careful if he smiles.’
‘A Dentophil smile,’ I mocked her, for indeed both of us used this toothpaste. It had been recommended by my dentist. Perhaps he was a Toad too.
‘Don’t ever mention Dentophil to him,’ she said. ‘He doesn’t like to be reminded of how his fortune was made.’
‘Doesn’t he use it himself?’
‘No. He uses a thing called a water-pik'.”
― Graham Greene, Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party