"My acquaintance with him was of the slightest.

It is true that I came here to lunch today without knowing what had happened.

It has been a shock to me, and I do not wish to talk about it, and I will not talk about it, for the present." She was deaf to their further questions.

The hotel clerk handed her into a taximeter cab, and gave the address to the driver.

Then he went back to his office, where Inspector Jacks was still sitting.
"This Mr.Hamilton Fynes," he remarked, "seems to have been what you might call a secretive sort of person.