So that Mr.Hewby simply used the accepted word.' 'Let me speak, please, Elfride! My assistant, Mr.Stephen Smith, will leave London by the early train to-morrow morning...MANY THANKS FOR YOUR PROPOSAL TO ACCOMMODATE HIM...YOU MAY PUT EVERY CONFIDENCE IN HIM, and may rely upon his discernment in the matter of church architecture." Well, I repeat that Hewby ought to be ashamed of himself for making so much of a poor lad of that sort.' 'Professional men in London,' Elfride argued, 'don't know anything about their clerks' fathers and mothers.

They have assistants who come to their offices and shops for years, and hardly even know where they live.

What they can do--what profits they can bring the firm--that's all London men care about.

And that is helped in him by his faculty of being uniformly pleasant.' 'Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty.

It shows that a man hasn't sense enough to know whom to despise.' 'It shows that he acts by faith and not by sight, as those you claim succession from directed.' 'That's some more of what he's been telling you, I suppose! Yes, I was inclined to suspect him, because he didn't care about sauces of any kind.