But really this has very little to do with our arrangements for Roger's future." "Do you mean to deny, sir, that you were a music-hall singer ?" "By no means.

I was.

On the whole, I rather enjoyed the vocation at the time.

I look upon that and the year (about which you apparently have not been fortunate enough to learn anything) during which I was tutor and private secretary in the family of the Hon.

James Welcher-- the most notorious blackleg in the kingdom--as two of the most interesting episodes in my career." "I can believe it.