The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question. Close to the corner of a broad and busy street within a couple of hundred yards of Fenchurch Street Station a narrow doorway opens into a long whitewashed passage.
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