The driver (it may help you to know) is drunk.

Of course, if by ill-luck they trace me out, to question me, I shall be obliged to tell what I know.
It amounts to very little: still--I have no wish to tell it.
One word more: get a wash as soon as you can, and by some means acquire a clean suit of clothes.

I may be then unable to swear to you: may be able to say that your face is as unfamiliar to me as it was--or as mine was to you--when Mr.Jope introduced us.

Eh ?" His look was piercing.
"Thank you, sir." He picked up his valise, nodded, and after a swift glance up the street and around at the driver, to make sure that his head was turned, stepped briskly out upon the pavement and disappeared around the back of the coach..