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"Can she have been wrong all these many years?" "What what about?" murmured the Prophet. Malkiel the Second leaned his matted head in his hands and replied, as if to himself, "Can it be that a prophet should live in Berkeley Square not Kimmins's" here he raised his head, and raked his companion with a glance that was almost fierce in its fervour of inquiry "not Kimmins's but the Berkeley Square?"
"Not the one at Brixton Rise behind the Kimmins's mews?" said Malkiel the Second, suspiciously. "Certainly not. The one near Grosvenor Square." "That's better," said Malkiel, upon whom the Prophet's address had evidently made a good impression. "Kimmins's is no class at all. Had you come from there, I but what may you want with me?"
The Prophet glanced significantly at the young librarian, who was leaning upon the counter in a tense, keyhole position, with his private ear turned somewhat ostentatiously towards the two speakers. "I can tell you in an inner room," he murmured, in his most ingratiating manner. "You're certain it's not Berkeley Square behind Kimmins's?" said Malkiel, with a last flicker of suspicion.
Merillia, "the Berkeley Square. But if you lived in the one behind Kimmins's Mews, it would be quite another pair of boots, would it not, ma'am?" Lady Julia, who was sitting next to Mr. Sagittarius, shifted her chair nearer to the Prophet, and whispered, "I'm sure he is dangerous, Mr. Vivian!" while Mrs. Merillia, in the greatest perplexity, replied, "The one behind Mr. Kimmins's Mews?"
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