'Let it—as soon as anybody wants it.'
'Not much prospect of that, is there?'
'Not just now,' Mr. Dallas said drily.
There was a little pause again, and then Pitt asked,—
'Have you Colonel Gainsborough's address, sir?'
'No.'
'I suppose they have it at the post office.'
'They have not. Colonel Gainsborough was to have sent me his address, when he knew himself what it would be, but he has never done so.'
'Is he living in the city, or out of it.'
'I have explained to you why I am unable to answer that question.'