16/24 'But--this is _not_ his lordship's room!' he cried. 'I tell you, I will see his lordship!' he continued. 'I have business with him, and--' here his gaze alighted on Sir George, and he stood confounded. 'Watkins,' he said in an awful voice, 'what is the meaning of this unmannerly intrusion? 'And rather than have words about it at his lordship's door--which I would not for twice the likes of him!' he added with a malevolent glance at the attorney--'I brought him here. |