← I asked if I might ask what kind of book it was to be. 🔊
← How was I to know that Soames wasn't another? 🔊
← And wasn't it to be in the very first number? 🔊
← It was very like him, and very like Rothenstein to have done it. 🔊
← "That's what you were going to say, isn't it?" he asked. 🔊
← I heard him say to Soames. 🔊
← "You don't suppose I look forward to it, do you?" 🔊
← I was, I still am, furious at having had that happen to me. 🔊