I came across the name." "Evidently." Greenacre's tone became a little more positive.

"I'm sure you have no objection to telling me how and where you came across it." Gammon had an uncomfortable sense of something unfamiliar in his friend.

Greenacre had never spoken in this way to him; it sounded rather too imperative, too much the tone of a superior.
"I don't think I can tell you that," he said awkwardly.
"No?
Really?
I'm sorry.

In that case I can't tell you anything that I have learnt.

Yet I fancy it _might_ be worth your while to exchange." "Exchange ?" "Your information for mine, you know.