I hope, incidentally, you don’t think I’m prejudiced against the gentlemen of the Fourth Estate?” Adam smiled. “I wouldn’t say that they were among your favorite people.” “They’re not bad fellows,” Skeffington said, “but they write. In this city they write mostly about me, and one of the great advantages to reading a story about yourself is that you’re in a pretty good position to check on the facts. I must say the most of our journalists don’t seem to be too strong on facts; no doubt they have an occupational distrust of them.
