The people at his lodgings did not even know that he had relatives, and his nearest relatives hardly knew that he had lodgings.

Even Kate had never been at the rooms in Cecil Street, and addressed all her letters to his place of business or his club.

He was a man who would bear no inquiry into himself.

If he had been out of view for a month, and his friends asked him where he had been, he always answered the question falsely, or left it unanswered.

There are many men of whom everybody knows all about all their belongings;--as to whom everybody knows where they live, whither they go, what is their means, and how they spend it.