After several futile attempts, aided by innumerable directions from passing employés, he at length reached the office of which he was in search. There he encountered a clerk who viewed him with a suspicious eye.
"What do you want, Monsieur?"
"I want some information."
"We don't give information here."
"Really!... Why not?"
"Are you a contractor?"
"No."
"You wish to lodge a complaint?"
"No."
"Then what is your business?"