'You did not expect to see me here among the investors who have been
calling upon you, Mr. Kenyon, did you?'
Kenyon held out his hand, and said:
'I am very pleased indeed to see you, whether you come as an investor or
not.'
'And so this is your new office?' she cried, looking round. 'How you have
blossomed out, haven't you? These offices are as fine as any in the
City.'
'Yes,' said John; 'they are too fine to suit me.'
'Oh, I don't see why you should not have handsome offices as well as
anyone else. You have been in my father's place of business, of course.
But it is not so grand as these rooms.'
'I think that helps to show the absurdity of ours. Your father's house is
an old-standing one, and this gives us an air of new riches which, I must
confess, I don't like, especially as we have not the riches.'
'Then, why did you agree to have such offices? I suppose you had
something to say about them?'
'Very little, I must own. They were engaged while I was in the North, and
after they had been engaged, of course I did not like to say anything
against them.'
'Well, and how is the mine getting on? You have not applied to me yet to
fulfil my offer, which I think was a very fair one.'
'I have not needed to do so,' said Kenyon.
'Ah, then, subscriptions are coming in, are they? Where is the list?'
'We have no list yet. We are waiting for your cousin, who is in the
North.'
'In the North!' said Edith, with her eyes open wide.
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