"Sir?"
"80 Lombard Street" (pointing to check).
"O, I am to get the money at 80 Lombard Street—am I?"
"Yes; better hurry. It's near bank closing."
"But where is Lombard Street?"
(Aghast at my ignorance.) "Cross d'rectly you go out, turn first to left, then take —— Street on right, and it's first Street on lef."
It might have been an accommodation to have paid me the money there, instead of sending me over to Lombard Street; but that would probably have been out of routine, and consequently un-English.
I started for the door, but when nearly out, remembered that I had not inquired for letters and papers from home, that I had given instructions should be sent there to await my arrival from Scotland and the north, and accordingly I returned, and inquired of clerk number two,—
"Any letters for me?"
"Ah! I beg yer pardon."