"What's it all about, anyway?
Have you gone crazy ?" "I don't think so," Burton replied.

"I rather think I have come to my senses.

Have you got those last furniture accounts ?" "No use starting on that job," Clarkson informed him, genially.

"The guvnor wants you down at the salesrooms, you've got to clerk for him." Burton looked very blank indeed.

A flood of unpleasant recollections assailed him.