Answering a sign from the landlord, he took a chair and, sitting down, looked at Mrs.Walters.
"What made you think some enquiry would be made, ma'am ?" he asked.

"Had you noticed anything ?" Mrs.Walters seemed a little confused by this direct question.

Her husband gave vent to a species of growl.
"Nothing to notice," he muttered.

"Her way of speaking--that's all." "Well--why I said that was this," said the landlady.

"He happened to tell us, did Mr.Marbury, that he hadn't been in London for over twenty years, and couldn't remember anything about it, him, he said, never having known much about London at any time.