We went there after the concert, and I have never seen him since." "Oh, indeed! I quite mistook." "If you have any particular reason for wishing me to see him, I will.
It will be all right if I have a message from you.

Shall I call on him?
It will be no trouble to me." "No, oh no.

I wanted--it was something that could only be told to him indirectly by an intimate friend--by some one with influence over him.
More a hint than anything else.

But it does not matter.

At least, it cannot be helped." Conolly did not speak until they had gone some thirty yards or so in silence.