To make room for him old Linden and some other full-price man could be got rid of; it would not be difficult to find some excuse.
'Well,' Hunter said at last in a doubtful, hesitating kind of way, 'I'm afraid not, Newman.

We're about full up.' He ceased speaking and remained waiting for the other to say something more.

He did not look at the man, but stooped down, fidgeting with the mechanism of the bicycle as if adjusting it.
'Things have been so bad this summer,' Newman went on.

'I've had rather a rough time of it.

I would be very glad of a job even if it was only for a week or so.' There was a pause.