his daughter and he would like to communicate his experience to her so as to preserve her from disappointments. She is, after all, only a superficial, self-deluded arriviste. Lastly, the Japanese gentlemen's presence, and the elaborate formality with which they communicate with one another and celebrate, contrasts sharply with the ferocious discursive dispute that opposes the young woman and her fiancé, and which she wins, at least rhetorically but fails to fulfill her supposed "powers of observation" by failing to notice the presence of the Japanese gentlemen as her fiancé does. Televisation "The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen" was one of several Greene stories adapted for the 1970s British television series Shades of Greene. Denholm Elliott, starring Royce Mills and Celia Bannerman. References 1965 short stories Short stories by Graham Greene