"Heard of it! San Francisco is full of it. Hamilton Fisker is the great man of the day there, and, when I left, your uncle was buying a villa for seventy-four thousand dollars. And yet they say that the best of it all has been transferred to you Londoners. Many there are very hard upon Fisker for coming here and doing as he did."
"It's doing very well, I believe," said Paul, with some feeling of shame, as he thought how very little he knew about it.
"You are the manager here in England?"
"No,--I am a member of the firm that manages it at San Francisco; but the real manager here is our chairman, Mr. Melmotte."

"Heard of it! San Francisco is full of it. Hamilton Fisker is the great man of the day there, and, when I left, your uncle was buying a villa for seventy-four thousand dollars. And yet they say that the best of it has been transferred to you Londoners."
"It's doing very well, I believe," said Paul, with some shame, as he thought how little he knew about it.
"You are the manager here in England?"
"No; I am a member of the firm; but the real manager here is our chairman, Mr. Melmotte."
