Wishing to save broker's expenses I went to see him myself at twelve o'clock.

Surely that is the most convenient time for paying business calls.

At least I have always supposed so.

I entered his ante-chamber and there stood a flunkey.

He told me I must wait! Told _me_ forsooth--_me_, John Lapussa--that I must cool my heels in an ante-chamber, at an inn, to please that wretched Hatszegi.