Under the effect of the heat the candle had bent sooner than I had expected.

I asked Fisher what was the meaning of the sound and he explained.

I passed down the stairs talking all the time.

I found a cab at Sloane Square and drove to my lodgings.

Underneath my overcoat I was partly dressed in evening kit.
"Ten minutes after I entered the door of my flat I came out a beardless man about town, not to be distinguished from the thousand others who would be found that night walking the promenade of any of the great music-halls.