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Not until he had been staying with Gurney for more than a week did Thrale speak explicitly of his purpose in London. But one cold evening at the end of January, as the two men were sitting by a roaring fire that Gurney had built up, the younger man unknowingly opened the subject by saying,
"Things are pretty slack at the present moment. The Evening Chronicle has even fallen back on the 'New Plague' for the sake of news."