Discouraging.
Nervous Philanthropist (on a slumming excursion). "Can you tell me if this is Little Erebus Street, my man?"
Suspicious-looking Party. "Yus."
Nervous P. "Er—rather a rough sort of thoroughfare, isn't it?"
Suspicious-looking P. "Yus; it is a bit thick. The further yer gows daown, the thicker it gits. I lives in the last 'aouse."
[Exit philanthropist hurriedly in the opposite direction.
