Granville Joy was employed in Lloyd's, and Robert had seen him that very day and spoken to him, but he did not recognize him, not until Ellen spoke.

"This is Mr.Joy, Mr.Lloyd," she said; "perhaps you know him.

He works in your uncle's shop." She said it quite simply, as if it was a matter of course that Robert was on speaking terms with all the employes in his uncle's factory.
Granville colored.

"I saw Mr.Lloyd this afternoon in the cutting-room," he said, "and we had some talk together; but maybe he don't remember, there are so many of us." Granville said "so many of us" with an indescribably bitter emphasis.

Suddenly his gentleness seemed changed to gall.