The Roll-Call

nd looked up at Mr. Enwright, the head of the firm, who with cigarette and stick was on his way out after what he called a good day's work. It was past six o'clock on an e

cious virtue. Haim, the factotum, could be seen and heard moving in his cubicle which guarded the offices from the stairs. In t

change your abode," said M

e tell you, then

dn't exactly

from the Five Towns, George had lived with Mr. and Mrs. Orgreave at Bedford Park. The Orgreaves, too,

exchanging in silence vague, malicious, unutterable c

" said Georg

re you g

" said George. "I wish

ood to you yet," Mr. Enwr

ouldn't. Beside

ontinent, and the circumstances of it were almost ideal. For a week the deeply experienced connoisseur of all the arts had had the fine, eager, responsive virgin mind in his power. Day after day he had watched and guided it amid entirely new sensations. Never had Mr. Enwright enjoyed himself more purely, and at the close he knew with satisfaction that he had put Paris in a proper perspective for George, and perhaps saved the youth from years of groping misapprehension. As for George, all his preconceived notions about Paris had been destroyed or shaken. In the quadrangles of the Louvre, for example, Mr. Enwr

d Mr. Enwright over his shoulder

inking of

structure of society is anything like Paris. Why, dash it, in the King's Road the grocers know e

the room immediately afterwards to his nightly task of collecting and in

ise himself by an endorsement of the criticism of his employer. George wa

George stood up straight and smoothed his trouser

ery friendly manner. " You live

nswered

if it isn't a

's near the Redcliffe Arms." He mentioned the Redcliffe Arms as he might have mentioned the Bank,

euce y

f course. No freeholds knocking

not usually accorded to factotums. He saw a property-owner, a tax-payer, and a human being behind the spectacles of the shuffling, rather shabby, ceremonious f

g for accommodation?" d

esitated

something that

words, seemed to George

at it," he said. He had to sa

. "Any evening that ha

ut to-nig

ing to invite him to dinner. But Mr. Haim was not going to invite him to dinner. "

lock up the office himself and le

Mr. Haim on leaving. "It's betwee