He says I am to write and say you are to stay no longer on any consideration--that he would have done it all in three hours very easily.

I told him that you were not like an experienced hand, which he seemed to forget, but it did not make much difference.

However, between you and me privately, if I were you I would not alarm myself for a day or so, if I were not inclined to return.

I would make out the week and finish my spree.

He will blow up just as much if you appear here on Saturday as if you keep away till Monday morning .-- Yours very truly, 'SIMPKINS JENKINS.
'Dear me--very awkward!' said Stephen, rather en l'air, and confused with the kind of confusion that assails an understrapper when he has been enlarged by accident to the dimensions of a superior, and is somewhat rudely pared down to his original size.
'What is awkward ?' said Miss Swancourt.
Smith by this time recovered his equanimity, and with it the professional dignity of an experienced architect.
'Important business demands my immediate presence in London, I regret to say,' he replied.
'What! Must you go at once ?' said Mr.Swancourt, looking over the edge of his letter.