"As you can tell by finding me here this afternoon, I am a great walker.

I arrived--on foot." "I see," Griffiths reflected.

"The other question which we usually ask is, where was your last stopping place ?" "Stopping place ?" Lessingham murmured.
"Yes, where did you sleep the night before you came here ?" Griffiths persisted.
Lessingham shook his head as though oppressed by some distasteful memory.
"But I did not sleep at all," he complained.

"It was one of the worst nights which I have ever spent in my life." Captain Griffiths gathered up his reins.
"Well," he said with clumsy sarcasm, "I am much obliged to you, Mr.
Lessingham, for the straight-forward way in which you have answered my questions.

I won't bother you any more just at present.