'In the Mint or the Customs.

There should not be the least difficulty about it.

You must speak to his lordship, and it is not to be supposed that he will refuse.' Sir George grunted, and might have expressed his doubts, but at that moment the sound of voices raised in altercation penetrated the room from the passage.

A second later, while the two stood listening, arrested by the noise, the door was thrown open with such violence that the candles flickered in the draught.

Two persons appeared on the threshold, the one striving to make his way in, the other to resist the invasion.
The former was our friend Mr.Fishwick, who having succeeded in pushing past his antagonist, stared round the room with a mixture of astonishment and chagrin.