Yes, the book was a success; but every success in life brings a would-be friend, and a dozen enemies.
True friendship is not influenced by success or failure.
CHAPTER XXVII
BURIED IN PARCELS
“THEY can’t come in here—I tell you they simply can’t.”
I was sitting eating my matutinal egg on a sleety January day in 1909, when I heard this altercation at the door.
“They can’t come in here,” repeated the cook, “they simply can’t.”
Thinking I had better go and see what it was all about, I ventured forth. On the doorstep stood two laughing postmen.
“What is it?” I asked.