"I will make him reasonable when I see him." It was not the way in which he expected that his anger would be received.
One day on his return home he found a card on his table which surprised him very much.

It contained a name but no address, but over the name there was a pencil memorandum, stating that the owner of the card would call again on his return to London after Easter.

The name on the card was that of Count Pateroff.

He remembered the name well as soon as he saw it, though he had never thought of it since the solitary occasion on which it had been mentioned to him.

Count Pateroff was the man who had been Lord Ongar's friend, and respecting whom Lord Ongar had brought a false charge against his wife.