'
The vivacious young man was not quite so genial as of wont, but
he evidently strove to show that the renewal of their relations
as employer and clerk would make no difference in the friendly
intercourse which had since been established; the invitation to
lunch evidently had this purpose.
'I suppose,' said Carter, when they were seated in a restaurant,
'you wouldn't object to anything better, if a chance turned up?'
'I should take it, to be sure.'
'But you don't want a job that would occupy all your time? You're
going on with writing, of course?'
'Not for the present, I think.'
'Then you would like me to keep a look-out? I haven't anything in
view--nothing whatever. But one hears of things sometimes.'
'I should be obliged to you if you could help me to anything
satisfactory.'
Having brought himself to this admission, Reardon felt more at
ease. To what purpose should he keep up transparent pretences? It
was manifestly his duty to earn as much money as he could, in
whatever way. Let the man of letters be forgotten; he was seeking
for remunerative employment, just as if he had never written a
line.
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