The people are rare and restless." "It will do very nicely, I am sure," Maraton replied.
The place was an ordinary commercial hotel, clean apparently but otherwise wholly unattractive.

Henneford led the way up-stairs and with some pride threw open the door of a room on the first floor.

"We've got you a sitting-room," he said.

"Thought you might want to talk to these Press people, perhaps, or do a bit of work.

Your secretary's somewhere about the place--turned up with a typewriter early this morning.