Can you describe them ?" The man smiled.
"It's rather a large order, sir," he said.

"I've been past there twice since.

If it's anybody you know particular, and you tell me what he was like, I may be able to help you." Brett would have preferred the conductor's own unaided statement, but seeing no help for it, he gave the man a detailed description of David Hume, plus the beard.
"Has he got black, snaky eyes and high cheek-bones ?" the conductor inquired thoughtfully.
The barrister had described a fair man, with brown hair; and the question in no way indicated the colour of the Hume-Frazer eyes.

Yet the odd combination caught his attention.
"Yes," he said, "that may be the man." "Well, sir, I didn't pick him up there, but I dropped him there at nine o'clock.

I picked him up at the Elephant, and noticed him particular because he didn't pay the fare for the whole journey, but took penn'orths." "I am greatly obliged to you.