\" she said, in the tone of one who knows how surely it will not. \"Newland, you must stay and see Sillerton Jackson when he comes this evening: I really shan't know what to say to him.\"
\"Poor mother! But he won't come—\" her son laughed, stooping to kiss away her frown.
XI.
Some two weeks later, Newland Archer, sitting in abstracted idleness in his private compartment of the office of Letterblair, Lamson and Low, attorneys at law, was summoned by the head of the firm.
\" she said, in the tone of one who knows how surely it will not. \"Newland, you must stay and see Sillerton Jackson when he comes this evening: I really shan't know what to say to him.\"
\"Poor mother! But he won't come—\" her son laughed, stooping to kiss away her frown.
XI.
Some two weeks later, Newland Archer, sitting in abstracted idleness in his private compartment of the office of Letterblair, Lamson and Low, attorneys at law, was summoned by the head of the firm.
