Explore "The Banker and the Bear" by Henry Kitchell Webster on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
In the library the two men watched the door until it clicked shut behind those who were going into the drawing-room to hear Jack Dorlin play. Then, after adjusting his easy-chair so that the light would not fall on his face, John Bagsbury seated himself.
"I'm tired to-night. This has been a big day. You say you have some business to talk over. It's against your rule, isn't it, to talk business after dinner?"