ten o'clock
`` For myself , I like severity and simplicity of surroundings , '' Mr. David Brunger in the office chair would tell a client in the armchair . `` For _ myself _ -- '' and he would waggle his head towards the side walls with an air that seemed to imply prodigal luxury in the fittings of `` -LRB- Clerks -RRB- '' and `` -LRB- Office -RRB- . '' Entering the room Mr. Brunger unlocked the roll-top desk ; discovered the stump of a half-smoked cigarette ; lit it and began to compare the day 's racing selections of `` Head Lad , '' who imparted stable secrets to one tipster 's organ , with those of `` Trainer , '' who from the knowledge of his position very kindly gave one horse snips to another . At ten o'clock the large staff of trained detectives -LRB- male and female -RRB- , mentioned in Mr. Brunger 's advertisements , came pouring up the stairs , knocked at the door and filed into the room . Its name was Issy Jago , a Jewish young gentleman aged seventeen , whose appearance testified in the highest manner to the considerable thrift he exercised in the matter of hair-dressers and toilet soap . Mr. Issy Jago sat himself on the wooden-seated chair before the small deal table ; got to work upon his finger-nails with the corner of an omnibus ticket ; proceeded to study the police court reports in the _ Daily Telegraph _ . It was his duty , whenever he noted plaintiffs or defendants to whom Mr. David Brunger 's services might be of benefit , to post to them Mr. David Brunger 's card together with a selection of entirely unsolicited testimonials composed and dictated by Mr. Brunger for the occasion .