"i stand corrected," said smith; "i should have remembered that time is money. i called in here partly in the hope that, though you only met me once on the stairs of my office, you might retain pleasant recollections of me, but principally in order that i might make two very eminent cat-fanciers acquainted. this," he said, with a wave of his hand in the direction of john, "is comrade maude, possibly the best known of english cat-fanciers. comrade maude's stud of angoras is celebrated wherever the english language is spoken."