CHAPTER TEN
MR. FOSTER CHOOSESMr. Johns had read Lord Pomfret’s Memoirs and had great hopes of them. Several passages were probably actionable and his lordship’s criticisms of his colleagues in a short-lived Government which he had once adorned were unprintable. But if he could get Lord Pomfret’s consent to a few alterations and excisions, the book, with Lord Pomfret’s name, would have in his practised opinion a very good chance. This delicate matter would best be treated, he felt, by a personal interview, so he wrote to Lord Pomfret saying he would be at Barchester at the Deanery from Saturday to Monday and would, if convenient, come and see him on the Saturday afternoon. On Sunday he was going to lunch with Mrs. Barton, so the week-end promised to be one of useful activity. The one draw
