"He told me, if I met with you, to say that he wished very particularly to see you to-night, and that he would give you a look in at Rutherford Street at seven o'clock." "All right," says Mr.Jay.

"I'll get back in time to see him." Upon this, the suspicious-looking young man finished his porter, and saying that he was rather in a hurry, took leave of his friend (perhaps I should not be wrong if I said his accomplice ?), and left the room.
At twenty-five minutes and a half past six--in these serious cases it is important to be particular about time--Mr.Jay finished his chops and paid his bill.

At twenty-six minutes and three-quarters I finished my chops and paid mine.

In ten minutes more I was inside the house in Rutherford Street, and was received by Mrs.Yatman in the passage.
That charming woman's face exhibited an expression of melancholy and disappointment which it quite grieved me to see.
"I am afraid, ma'am," says I, "that you have not hit on any little criminating discovery in the lodger's room ?" She shook her head and sighed.

It was a soft, languid, fluttering sigh--and, upon my life, it quite upset me.