8/23 What do you intend to do for the next few weeks, say? "I am afraid that I am not altogether keen about making advances." Mr.Mangan coughed. "You must remember that during the period of your last residence in London," he said, "you were in a state of chronic impecuniosity. No doubt that rather affected the attitude of some of those who would otherwise have been more friendly." "I should be perfectly content never to see one of them again," declared Dominey, with perfect truth. "You must go and see the Duchess, at any rate. |