JABEZ. I'm not interested in literature.
CHARLIE. This will interest you. (Holding the book out towards him.)
JABEZ. (snatching it and reading the title). "An Inquiry into the Condition of the Workers in our Chemical Industries, by Walter Clavering, M.D." What's this? Clavering? This isn't like what I know of Clavering. I wonder what his game is?
CHARLIE. He hasn't got a game, as you call it. Clavering's in earnest about it. (Going up to fire.)
JABEZ. I'm afraid you're a bad judge of character, Charlie. (Turning over the pages.) What's this? "Illustrated by Photographs by Charles Bunting."
CHARLIE. Oh, yes. I had a hand in it.
JABEZ. You damned young scamp.
CHARLIE. That's an advance copy. The book's not published yet.
JABEZ. I'll take good care it never is.
CHARLIE (smiling). It will be published to-morrow. Here's a proof of a review of it by a chum of Clavering's. This review will appear in a London paper to-morrow. It will tell you all about the book. Shall I read it to you? (Taking a proof sheet from his breast pocket.)