The Citadel
“A manservant’s voice, gravely solicitous, purred at him.
‘Doctor Manson, sir! Ah! Miss le Roy wishes to know, sir, what time you will be calling on her today. Ah! Excuse me, sir, hold on – Mrs Lawrence will speak to you herself.’ Andrew hung on, with a quick throbbing excitement while Mrs Lawrence talked to him in friendly fashion, explaining that they were expecting him to call, without fail.
As he came away from the phone he told himself exultantly that he hadn’t missed the opportunit...y yesterday, he hadn’t, no, he hadn’t missed it after all.
He dropped all his other calls, urgent or otherwise, and went straight to the house in Green Street. And here, for the first time, he met Joseph le Roy. He found le Roy impatiently awaiting him in the jade-bedizened hall, a bald thick-set figure, downright and bejowled, who abused his cigar like a man who has no time to lose. In one second his eyes bored into Andrew, a swift surgical operation which ended to his satisfaction.MoreLess
‘Doctor Manson, sir! Ah! Miss le Roy wishes to know, sir, what time you will be calling on her today. Ah! Excuse me, sir, hold on – Mrs Lawrence will speak to you herself.’ Andrew hung on, with a quick throbbing excitement while Mrs Lawrence talked to him in friendly fashion, explaining that they were expecting him to call, without fail.
As he came away from the phone he told himself exultantly that he hadn’t missed the opportunit...y yesterday, he hadn’t, no, he hadn’t missed it after all.
He dropped all his other calls, urgent or otherwise, and went straight to the house in Green Street. And here, for the first time, he met Joseph le Roy. He found le Roy impatiently awaiting him in the jade-bedizened hall, a bald thick-set figure, downright and bejowled, who abused his cigar like a man who has no time to lose. In one second his eyes bored into Andrew, a swift surgical operation which ended to his satisfaction.MoreLess
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