My idea in coming here was simply to fulfil an old promise to my father and to rough it at the Tower for a week or so, and when that was over, I don't suppose I should ever be likely to come back again.

You had better let me carry out that plan, and afterwards the place shall be entirely at your disposal." "You don't quite understand," Mr.Fentolin persisted, a little irritably.

"I sit there every morning.

I want, for instance, to be there to-morrow morning, and the next morning, and the morning afterwards, to finish a little seascape I have commenced.

Nowhere else will do.