"He has written to me to say that he would be here at six.

Come in!" The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and penetrating grey eyes.

He shot a questioning glance at each of us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair.
"Good-evening, Mr.James Windibank," said Holmes.

"I think that this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an appointment with me for six o'clock ?" "Yes, sir.

I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not quite my own master, you know.