By pressing a particular button in the leather covering of the right arm of his chair, he moved an indicator above the desk of his clerk in the outer office.

The clerk thereupon announced a visitor, and the one in occupation was bowed out by the private staircase.

By this method Walter Hine had been dismissed.
Jarvice had the address of Garratt Skinner.

But he sat with it in front of him upon his desk for a long time before he could bring himself to use it.

All the amiability had gone from his expression now that he was alone.