"
"Where can I sit? May I move these?" He swept aside a little pile of
newspapers and books, and took possession of the seat which she had
purposely appropriated. "The other chairs are so far off, and you seem
to have chosen a dark corner. Eastwards, no. I have been at the
office all the morning, and we have bought the property in Poplar Grove
and the house in Bermondsey. Now I have finished for the day. Doctor's
orders."
"If any one has earned a holiday," she said, quietly, "you have. There
is some cake on the table there."
"Thanks. Well, it was hard work at first. How we stuck at it down at
Stepney, didn't we? Six in the morning till twelve at night. And then
how we rushed ahead. It seems to me that we have been doing nothing but
open branches lately."
"I wonder," she said, "that you have stood it so well. Why don't you go
away altogether for a time? You have such splendid helpers now.
"Oh, I'm enjoying myself," he answered, lightly, "and I don't care to be
out of touch with it all."
"You enjoy contrasts," she remarked. "I saw your name in the paper this
morning as one of Lady Caroom's guests last night.
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