He did not look in the least like a man who had been robbed.

He was smiling pleasantly and cheerfully.

Mr.Chalker was also present, a man with whom no one ever smiled, and Lala Roy, solemn and dignified, and a man--an unknown man--who sat in the outer shop, and seemed to take no interest at all in the proceedings.

Were they come, he asked himself, to arrest him on the spot?
Apparently they were not, for no one took the least notice of him, and they were occupied with something else.

How could they think of anything else?
Yet Mr.Chalker, standing at the table, was making a speech, which had nothing to do with the robbery.
"Here I am, you see, Mr.Emblem," he said; "I have told you already that I don't want to do anything to worry you.