. >> well, he was incredibly unpredatory. >> rose: unpredatory. >> girl was often throw themselves at him. >> rose: for good reason. >> well, yeah. >> rose: he was attractive. >> very attractive. and. >> rose: brilliant. >> and what he-- his, what he would do to charm people was to turn his intelligence on them and show his intelligence am and that was his, that was his way of attracting people. but he was very dissident. >> rose: but at the same time was he nicholas in your novel. >> yes. >> rose: so there was nicholas and you were keith and. >> yeah. >> rose: you know. >> up to a point, yeah. in as much as, you know, once there is a novel, the character changes to fit the novel. so it never is the person themselves. but there was one-story that is in the novel, i thought was so great that i had to make a scene to give the punch line that hitch gave which was we were in one of these empty greek restaurants and two very upper-class young men came in. and they were fussing around with the waiters. and they had a terrible air about them as if they were, you know, stokley a waiting the d