I thought you were at the club." "I told you I should go to the Treasury.

I have been there all the morning with the chancellor,"-- when Sir Raffle spoke officially of the chancellor he was not supposed to mean the Lord Chancellor--"and here I find letters which I particularly wanted lying upon my desk now.

I must put an end to this kind of thing.

I must, indeed.

If you like the outer office better say so at once, and you can go." "I'll think about it, Sir Raffle." "Think about it! What do you mean by thinking about it?
But I can't talk about that now.