He followed said onslaught down Bishopsgate, watching the water get dirtier as he went, but didn't go as far as the wall – he stopped at the great house, or rather compound, that Sir Thomas ("Bad money drives out good') Gresham had built, a hundred years ago, with money he'd made lending to the Crown and reforming the coinage. Like all old half-timbered fabricks it was slowly warping and bending out of true, but Daniel loved it because it was now Gresham's College, home of the Royal Society.