"You don't know when they ought to get here?"
"We know nothing about it, sir."
"Have you any left from last night...?"
The saleswoman looked through the rows.
"Not a single one, sir."
I left the station, thinking what a sell! I had hardly gone a hundred yards before I heard myself called.
"Halloa there! Signor Dreher!"
I turned round:
"Oh! It's you!"
"I say, pretty bad, the news, what!"