"'Ow so ?" "She sold me a ticket to a dance," Fairchild carefully forgot the earlier meeting.

"Then we 've happened to meet several times after that.

She said that her father had told her about me--it seems he used to be a friend of my own father." Harry nodded.
"So 'e was.

And a good friend.

But that was before things 'appened--like they 've 'appened in the last ten years.