My proposal is that the Government (acting, as I presume, through your Museum) should pay Professor Chadd L800 a year until he stops dancing." "Eight hundred a year!" said Mr Bingham, and for the first time lifted his mild blue eyes to those of his interlocutor--and he raised them with a mild blue stare.

"I think I have not quite understood you.

Did I understand you to say that Professor Chadd ought to be employed, in his present state, in the Asiatic manuscript department at eight hundred a year ?" Grant shook his head resolutely.
"No," he said firmly.

"No.

Chadd is a friend of mine, and I would say anything for him I could.