I'd like to have seen his face when he got that message.

No, that young man won't do.

He won't do at all." It was not for me to dispute this conclusion, even if I had disagreed with him, which I did not.

I said nothing.

He rubbed his knee for a moment and then changed the subject.
"How did you happen to be on the Lower Road at that time of the night ?" he asked.