She is very beautiful, and she is, too, of a different social rank." Mr.Jarvis was frankly scornful.
"Why, she was a foreigner," he declared.

"I should like to know of what account any foreign family is against our good city firms, such as I have been speaking of.

No, Chetwode, my opinion is that she's brought a lot of her miserable, foreign hangers-on over here, and that somehow or other they are worrying Mr.Weatherley.I should like, if I could, to interest you in the chief.

You can't be expected to feel as I do towards him.

At the same time, he is the head of the firm, and you are bound, therefore, to feel a certain respect due to him, and I thought that if I talked to you and put these matters before you, which have occurred not only to me but to those others who have been with Mr.Weatherley for so many years, you might be able to help us by watching, and if you can find any clue as to what is bothering him, why, I'd be glad to hear of it, for there isn't one of us who wouldn't do anything that lay in his power to have the master back once more as he used to be a few years ago.