I don't like these affairs that have to be concluded at the last possible moment." "Well," Tavernake agreed, "I must try what I can do, then.

There is nothing else fresh, I suppose ?" "Nothing," the solicitor answered.

"Come back, if you can make any definite arrangement, or telephone.

The matter is really bothering me a little.

I don't want to have the other people slip in now."...
Tavernake, instead of obeying his first impulse and making his way direct to the Milan Court, walked to the flat in Kingsway, climbed up the stone steps, and asked for Beatrice.