He might tell me something." His acquaintance with Kara's menage had been mere hearsay.

He had interviewed the Greek once after his return, but since all his efforts to secure information concerning the whereabouts of John Lexman and his wife--the main reason for his visit--had been in vain, he had not repeated his visit.
The house in Cadogan Square was a large one, occupying a corner site.

It was peculiarly English in appearance with its window boxes, its discreet curtains, its polished brass and enamelled doorway.

It had been the town house of Lord Henry Gratham, that eccentric connoisseur of wine and follower of witless pleasure.

It had been built by him "round a bottle of port," as his friends said, meaning thereby that his first consideration had been the cellarage of the house, and that when those cellars had been built and provision made for the safe storage of his priceless wines, the house had been built without the architect's being greatly troubled by his lordship.