Her residence is in the Regent's Park district of London." Robinson, the policeman, permitted himself to look surprised.

He was, in fact, rather annoyed.

Bates's story had prepared him for a first-rate detective mystery.

It was irritating to have one of its leading features cleared up so promptly.
"Oh," he said, drawing a line under the last entry in the note-book, and writing the date and hour in heavy characters beneath.

"Married or single ?" "Married, but separated from her husband when last I had news of her." "And when was that, sir ?" "Nearly three years ago." "And you have not seen her since ?" "No." "You didn't see her last night ?" Grant positively started, but he looked at the policeman squarely.
"It is strange you should ask me that," he said.