The Curious Quest by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Mr. Ernest Bliss descended from the eighty-horsepower motor-car which had been the pride of a recent exhibition and languidly rang the bell of a large house in. Harley Street, which was the professional residence of Sir James Aldroyd, M.D. He was admitted almost at once by a solemn-visaged butler, and was escorted into the waiting room in which three other people were already seated. He turned to the servant with a frown.

"I wrote to Sir James for an appointment at eleven o'clock," he said. "My name is Bliss--Mr. Ernest Bliss. Please let Sir James know I am here."