As for the last aspect I will repay you." "You will do no such thing, Professor," said I."My evening has, on the contrary, been particularly useful and instructive.

I wouldn't have missed it for the world." And I drove off homewards, glad to be in my own company.
Here was an imbroglio! The missing husband found and, like most missing husbands, found to be entirely undesirable.

And Lola, obviously imagining her summons to be from me, was at that moment speeding hither as fast as the _Marechal Bugeaud_ could carry her.

If I had discovered Captain Vauvenarde instead of Anastasius I would have anathematised him as the most meddlesome, crazy little marplot that ever looked like Napoleon the Third.

But as the credit of the discovery belonged to him and not to me, I could only anathematise myself for my dilettanteism in the capacity of a private inquiry agent.
I went to bed and slept badly.