One big success doesn't make a 'great man' any more than one rosebush makes a garden." "Are you fishing for a compliment?
Or is that really natural modesty?
I had heard of your exploits and seen your name in the papers, oh, dozens of times before I first had the pleasure of meeting you; and since then ...

No, I shan't flatter you by saying how many successes I have seen recorded to your credit in the past two years.

Do you know that I have a natural predilection for such things?
It may be morbid of me--is it ?--but I have the strongest kind of a leaning toward the tales of Gaboriau; and I have always wanted to know a really great detective--like Lecocq, or Dupin.

And that day at Ascot when Mr.Narkom told me that he would introduce me to the famous 'Man of the Forty Faces'...

Mr.Cleek, why do they call you 'the Man of the Forty Faces'?
You always look the same to me." "Perhaps I shan't, when we come to the end of the heath and get into the public street, where there are lights and people," he said.