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For many years the business had struggled along with a flavour of romantic insecurity in a small, dissolute-looking shop in the High Street, adorned with brilliantly coloured advertisements of cycles, a display of bells, trouser-clips, oil-cans, pump-clips, frame-cases, wallets, and other accessories, and the announcement of "Bicycles on Hire," "Repairs," "Free inflation," "Petrol," and similar attractions.
It seemed a small matter to them that the newspaper and cigarette shop opposite displayed such placards as this: or this: WAR A QUESTION OF HOURS. or again: WASHINGTON STILL SILENT. or this: WILL AMERICA FIGHT? Bert stared at these over the card of pump-clips in the pane in the door with unseeing eyes.
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