There, for the present, it must remain.
He owed it to himself to devote every energy he possessed to make the most of this great tide of business.

With set face he closed the doors upon the unreal world, and took hold of the levers which were to guide his passage through the one in which he was an actual figure.
Her visit was not altogether unexpected, and yet, when they told him that Mademoiselle Idiale was outside, he hesitated.
"It is the lady who was here the other day," his head clerk reminded him.

"We made a remarkably good choice of stocks for her.

They must be showing nearly sixteen hundred pounds profit.

Perhaps she wants to realize." "In any case, you had better show her in," said Laverick.
She came, bringing with her, notwithstanding her black clothes and heavy veil, the atmosphere of a strange world into his somewhat severely furnished office.