Billy thanked him and picked up his suitcase and set
out to walk the quarter-mile to The Bell and Dragon. He
had never been to Bath before. He didn’t know anyone who
lived there. But Mr. Greenslade at the head office in London
had told him it was a splendid town. “Find your own lodgings,”
he had said, “and then go along and report to the
branch manager as soon as you’ve got yourself settled