About what a long time it took to get a member to attend to you, and such-like.

I made mention of the fact that I hadn't been in there before.

'Neither have I!' he says, 'I came in out of curiosity,' he says, and then he laughed, sir--queer-like.

And it was just after that that what I'm going to tell you about happened." "Tell," commanded Spargo.
"Well, sir, there was a gentleman came along, down this grand hall that we were sitting in--a tall, handsome gentleman, with a grey beard.

He'd no hat on, and he was carrying a lot of paper and documents in his hand, so I thought he was happen one of the members.