Then he sat with closed eyes for a moment, and took an envelope, and swiftly addressed it.

He smudged it, however, in blotting it, and so crumpled it up, threw it into the waste-paper basket.

He then addressed a second one, and into this he inserted his letter, and got up.
The servant was waiting in the little hall outside.
"Please give this to Mr.Mills when he arrives," he said.

"You expected him last night, did you not ?" Mr.Taynton found on arrival at his office that, in his partner's absence, there was a somewhat heavy day of work before him, and foresaw that he would be occupied all afternoon and indeed probably up to dinner time.

But he was able to get out for an hour at half-past twelve, at which time, if the weather was hot, he generally indulged in a swim.