Answer :
Ausable was different from other secret agents in more ways than one. He had a small
room in the musty corridor of a gloomy French hotel. It was on the sixth and top floor
and it was scarcely the setting for a romantic adventure. He was extremely fat. Inspite of
living in Paris for over twenty years, he spoke French and German only passably and
had an American accent. Instead of getting messages slipped into his hands by dark-
eyed beauties, he got only a telephone call making an appointment. In these ways, he
was different from the conventional notion of a spy.