'There's one person in the world he can never practise his transformations on, and that's me.

I shall always know him again, though he appeared as Sir Douglas Haig.

I can't explain why, but I've got a feel in my bones about it.

I didn't recognize him before, for I thought he was dead, and the nerve in my brain which should have been looking for him wasn't working.

But I'm on my guard now, and that nerve's functioning at full power.
Whenever and wherever and howsoever we meet again on the face of the earth, it will be "Dr Livingstone, I presume" between him and me.' 'That is better,' said Macgillivray.