And he learned the amazing fact that it was ordinarily as easy to see Mr.
Killigrew as it was to see King George.

Office-boys, minor clerks, head clerks, managers; they quizzed and buffeted him hither and thither.

He never thought to state at the outset that he was Mrs.
Killigrew's private secretary; he merely said that it was very important that he should see Mr.Killigrew at once.
"Mr.Killigrew is busy," he was informed by the assistant manager, at whose desk Thomas finally arrived.

"If you will give me your card I'll have it sent in to him." Thomas confessed that he had no card.

The assistant manager grew distinctly chilling.
"If you will be so kind as to inform Mr.Killigrew that Mr.Webb, Mrs.
Killigrew's private secretary.