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In the afternoon
Given this lady and that board and his general impression of Harman 's refreshment and confectionery activity -- the data were insufficient . A commonplace man no doubt , a tradesman , energetic perhaps and certainly a little brassy , successful by the chances of that economic revolution which everywhere replaces the isolated shop by the syndicated enterprise , irrationally conceited about it ; a man perhaps ultimately to be pitied -- with this young goddess finding herself ... . Mr. Brumley 's mind sat down comfortably to the more congenial theme of a young goddess finding herself , and it was only very gradually in the course of several days that the personality of Sir Isaac began to assume its proper importance in the scheme of his imaginings . § 2 In the afternoon as he went round the links with Horace Toomer he got some definite lights upon Sir Isaac . His mind was so full of Lady Harman that he could n't but talk of her visit . `` I 've a possible tenant for my cottage , '' he said as he and Toomer , full of the sunny contentment of English gentlemen who had played a proper game in a proper manner , strolled back towards the clubhouse . `` That man Harman . ''