For a while I'll admit I had the blues, but, after all, some day the Trust Company is likely to take up the thing again and give me the commission.

Anyway, I've had a corking time doing the things, and lots of valuable practice in handling a big job and covering large surfaces; and the problem has been most exciting and interesting because, you see, I've had to solve it, taking into consideration the architecture and certain fixed keys and standards, such as the local colour and texture of the marble and the limitations of the light area.

Don't turn up your pretty nose; it's all very interesting.
"I didn't bother about luncheon; and about five I went to the club, rather tired in my spinal column and arm-weary.
"Nobody was there whom you know except Delancy Grandcourt and Dysart.

The latter certainly looks very haggard.

I do not like him personally, as you know, but the man looks ill and old and the papers are becoming bolder in what they hint at concerning him and the operations he was, and is still supposed to be, connected with; and it is deplorable to see such a physical change in any human being, guilty or innocent.