... other £100 and was left with a clear profit of £550. Remarkable, murmured the admiring visitor, and that, then, was, so to speak, the beginning. That was, confirmed Sir James, the begin ning. I assure you the affair was a revelation to me. I understood ...

... you weren't with me I should lunch there to-day, because some swell of a member might speak to me and offer me a job, which he couldn't do if he didn't see me and speak to me, could he The clock at St. James's Palace was striking one. It's lunch time now ...