" "You seem to have studied the man," I observed.
"Studied," repeated Marlow thoughtfully.

"No! Not studied.

I had no opportunities.

You know that I saw him only on that one occasion I told you of.

But it may be that a glimpse and no more is the proper way of seeing an individuality; and de Barral was that, in virtue of his very deficiencies for they made of him something quite unlike one's preconceived ideas.