"Who's it about?"
"My employer,—Mrs. Sigsbee H. Waddington, sir."
"What's she been doing?"
"It is a long story...."
"Then I haven't time to listen to it."
"It concerns the sensational interruption to the marriage of Mrs. Waddington's stepdaughter...."
"Didn't the wedding come off, then?"
"No, sir. And the circumstances which prevented it...."
Mr. Biffen uttered an exclamation. He had apparently looked at his watch and been dismayed by the flight of time.
"I must run," he said. "I've a date at the Algonquin in a quarter of an hour. Come and talk to me at the office to-morrow."