With the exception that during the morning they could look forward to lunch-time, and during the afternoon know that every folio they penned brought them nearer to the hour when the underground railway or the 'bus might take them to their homes, their office life was little different from the life of a machine .
69 o'clock with the regularity of machines.  With the exception that during the morning they could look forward to lunch-time, and during the afternoon know that every folio they penned brought them nearer to the hour when the underground railway or the 'bus might take them to their homes, their office life was little different from the life of a machine .  Still the entrance of such a notable client as Mdlle.