Where did you know him?
What was he ?" Having gone so far, Gammon saw no reason for refusing the details of the story.

With the pleasure that every man feels in narrating circumstances known only to a few, he told all he could about the career of Mrs.Clover's husband.

Greenacre listened with a placidly smiling attention.
"Just the kind of thing I am always coming across," he remarked.
"Everyday story in London.

We must find this man.

Do you know his Christian name ?" Mrs.Clover called him Mark.
"Mark?
May or may not be his own, of course.