‘Room D,’ says Limpet.
A third clerk enters.
‘Mr. John Symonds.’
‘Room F,’ says Grigg.
The clerks having retired to do their bidding, the partners sit still for a few minutes.
‘Time?’ says Grigg.
‘Twenty-past,’ says Limpet. ‘I think that will do.’
Clients calling on Grigg and Limpet are always kept waiting from ten minutes to a quarter of an hour. Lawyers with such an enormous business are never disengaged at a moment’s notice.
Grigg goes to the side of the room where several speaking-tubes are arranged. These are lettered A, B, C, D, E, and F Malice says they all communicate with the same office; but what will not malice say?
‘Show all parties to the Egerton case in,’ says Grigg, speaking up the tube.