Tell him everything! If he advises you against my proposal, I shall even say take his advice.

Good-morning." Mr.
Jarvice went to the door and opened it.
"Well, this is the spider's web, you know," he said, with the good-humored laugh of one who could afford to despise the slanders of the ill-affected.

"Not such a very uncomfortable place, eh ?" and he bowed Mr.
Fly out of his office.
He stood at the door and waited until the outer office closed.

Then he went to his telephone and rang up a particular number.
"Are you Jones and Stiles ?" he asked.

"Thank you! Will you ask Mr.Driver to come to the telephone"; and with Mr.Driver he talked genially for the space of five minutes.
Then, and not till then, with a smile of satisfaction, Mr.Jarvice turned to the unopened letters which had come to him by the morning post..