'
'Profits would be less, I suppose. People would take the minimum
subscription.'
'Well, to go to the concrete, what about your own one-volume?'
'All but done.'
'And you'll offer it to Jedwood? Go and see him personally. He's
a very decent fellow, I believe.'
Milvain stayed only half an hour. The days when he was wont to
sit and talk at large through a whole evening were no more;
partly because of his diminished leisure, but also for a less
simple reason--the growth of something like estrangement between
him and Reardon.
'You didn't mention your plans,' said Amy, when the visitor had
been gone some time.
'No.'
Reardon was content with the negative, and his wife made no
further remark.
The result of advertising the flat was that two or three persons
called to make inspection. One of them, a man of military
appearance, showed himself anxious to come to terms; he was
willing to take the tenement from next quarter-day (June), but
wished, if possible, to enter upon possession sooner than that.
'Nothing could be better,' said Amy in colloquy with her husband.
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