'Well, he wasn't there when I came in,' he said, 'and he isn't there now,' he said.

'Perhaps he has gone to wait in the drawing-room,' he said.

So we went and looked in the drawing-room, but he wasn't there.

Then Mr.Hurst said he thought Mr.Bellingham must have got tired of waiting and gone away; but I told him I was quite sure he hadn't, because I had been watching all the time.

Then he asked me if Mr.Bellingham was alone or whether his daughter was with him, and I said that it wasn't that Mr.Bellingham at all, but Mr.John Bellingham, and then he was more surprised than ever.