He had a short interview at Murray's with a man who said he was the editor of "The Quarterly," and who may have been Lockhart, but Hugh told him that he could only communicate to the reviewer his secret message. He continued to visit Murray's under a promise of seeing the reviewer, but he always saw the same man who at first had said that he was editor, but afterwards assured him he was the reviewer, and pressed him greatly to say who Currer Bell was. Hugh declined to make any statement except into the ear of the reviewer; but as the truculent character of the avenger was probably very apparent, his direct and bold move did not succeed, and at last they ceased to admit him at Murray's. Having failed there, he went to the publishers of "Jane Eyre," and told them plainly he was the author's uncle, and that he had come to London to chastise the "Quarterly Review" critic. They treated him civilly without furthering his quest, but he got from them, I believe, an introduction to the reading-room of the British Museum, and to some other reading-rooms. In the reading-room he was greatly disgusted to find how little interest was taken in the matter that absorbed his whole attention. He met, however, one kind old gentleman in the British Museum who thoroughly sympathized with him, and took him home with him several times. On one occasion he invited a number of people to meet him at dinner. The house had signs of wealth such as he had never before seen or dreamt of. Everybody was kind to him. After dinner he was called on for a speech, and when he sat down they cheered him and drank his health. They all examined his shillelagh, and, before parting, promised to do their best to aid him in discovering the reviewer; but his friend afterwards told him, at the Museum, that all had failed, and considered Hugh's undertaking hopeless. He tried other plans of getting on the reviewer's track. He would step into a book-shop, and buy a sheet of paper on which to write home, or some other trifling object. While paying for his small purchase he would lift "The Quarterly Review," and casually ask the book-seller who wrote the attack on "Jane Eyre."