"The whole business seems to me very odd.

Suppose I were to come here and ask for information as to where I could get a five-dollar note changed; would Mr Candy be able to tell me ?" "He would do in that case just as he does in all others," she said; "first, he would go and find out, and then he would let you know.

Giving information is only half the business; finding things out is the other half.

That's what he's doing now." "So, when he comes back," said Lawrence, "he'll have a new bit of information to add to his stock on hand, which must be a very peculiar one, I fancy." The cashier smiled.

"Yes," she said, "and a very useful one, too, if people only knew it." "Don't they know it ?" asked Lawrence.