"Miss Kenton, please keep your voice down.

 

What would employees below think to hear us shouting at the top of our voices

about what is and what is not the correct Chinaman?"

 

"The fact is, Mr Stevens, all the Chinamen in this house have been dirty for

some time! And now, they are in incorrect positions!"

 

"Miss Kenton, you are being quite ridiculous.

 

Now if you will be so good as to let me pass."

 

"Mr Stevens, will you kindly look at the Chinaman behind you?"

 

"If it is so important to you, Miss Kenton, I will allow that the Chinaman

behind me may well be incorrectly situated. But I must say I am at some loss as

to why you should be so concerned with these most trivial of errors."

 

"These errors may be trivial in themselves, Mr Stevens, but you must yourself

realize their larger significance."

 

"Miss Kenton, I do not understand you. Now if you would kindly allow me to

pass."

 

"The fact is, Mr Stevens, your father is entrusted with far more than a man of