Edgar Wallace

“ Being young and healthy and bubbling with life, the loss of his lunch was almost as important a matter as the loss which the world of science would sustain by the removal of its brightest ornament. The only other worry in his mind was whether this happening would interfere with Jerry's proof correction, for Mr. Sennett had made an appointment to call that evening, and Jimmy by judicious and artful questioning had discovered that Delia Sennett was coming with him. ”

“ She's frightfully keen on learning languages——”
But her laughter arrested his invention.
It was a quarter of an hour after dinner time when the car came rolling up the drive and he lifted her out, though she could have dispensed with his assistance, being also young and active. He looked forward to having her for the rest of the evening, but at dinner Gerald told him that his work was finished, and, although he drove the old printer and his daughter back to Camberwell by the most circuitous route, he came back to the house to face a long and lonely evening at a ridiculously early hour. ”

“ Smith, that beef looks fine! If there's one thing I enjoy more than another,” Jimmy went on, as he placed a slice of red beef between two pieces of bread, “It is lunching with the prime minister of England. ”