[Mr. Standfast by John Buchan]@TWC D-Link bookMr. Standfast CHAPTER EIGHT 14/55
D'ye no agree, sir? By the way, I havena got your name ?' I told him and he rambled on. 'We're blenders and do a very high-class business, mostly foreign.
The war's hit us wi' our export trade, of course, but we're no as bad as some.
What's your line, Mr McCaskie ?' When he heard he was keenly interested. 'D'ye say so? Ye're from Todd's! Man, I was in the book business mysel', till I changed it for something a wee bit more lucrative.
I was on the road for three years for Andrew Matheson.
Ye ken the name--Paternoster Row--I've forgotten the number.
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