His face was extraordinarily round except towards his chin, where it came to a point; his eyes bright and keen, his mouth the mouth of a professional humourist.

He shook hands with the lawyer with an _empressement_ which was scarcely English.
"Within the space of half an hour," Dominey continued, "I find a princess who desires to claim my acquaintance; a cousin," he dropped his voice a little, "who lunches only a few tables away, and the man of whom I have seen the most during the last ten years amidst scenes a little different from these, eh, Seaman ?" Seaman accepted the chair which the waiter had brought and sat down.

The lawyer was immediately interested.
"Do I understand, then," he asked, addressing the newcomer, "that you knew Sir Everard in Africa ?" Seaman beamed.

"Knew him ?" he repeated, and with the first words of his speech the fact of his foreign nationality was established.

"There was no one of whom I knew so much.