27/42 He looked at her in the same way now. I should suppose he is the better kind of artisan. He talks with a good deal of the working-class accent, of course, but not like a wholly uneducated man.' 'His letter, you remember, was anything but illiterate. I feel I ought to ask him to come and see me before we leave.' 'The correspondence surely suffices.' 'You expressed my thanks ?' 'Conscientiously.' 'I see you found the interview rather difficult, Hubert.' 'How could it be otherwise? We had a little passage of arms,--quite within the bounds of civility. |