But he would add immediately, "It'll mean some delay, anyway, but you might try it.

" And Levin did try, and did go.

Everyone was kind and civil, but the point evaded seemed to crop up again in the end, and again to bar the way.

What was particularly trying, was that Levin could not make out with whom he was struggling, to whose interest it was that his business should not be done.

That no one seemed to know; the solicitor certainly did not know.