After we had seen the printing machinery, and so on, he took me up to the top of the building into a small room, where there was just a table and a chair and a bookshelf; and he told me it was his first office, the room in which he had begun business thirty years ago.

He has always kept it for his own, and just as it was--a fancy of his.

There's no harm in my telling you; he's very proud of it, and so am I.That's energy!' 'Very interesting indeed.' 'I must go up again,' she added quickly.

'Oh, there's miss Beaufoy; do let me introduce you to Miss Beaufoy.' She did so, unaware of Rolfe's groaning reluctance, and at once disappeared.
The supper-room began to fill.

As soon as he could escape from Miss Beaufoy, who had a cavalier of her own, Harvey ascended the stairs again, and found a quiet corner, where he sat for a quarter of an hour undisturbed.