Crowther followed his example, and they faced one another across the little table.
"I say it," said Crowther, "because that is the sort of lad I take him to be." Sir Beverley grunted again.

"And when and where did you make his acquaintance ?" he enquired, with a stern, unsparing scrutiny of the calm face opposite.
"We met in Australia," said Crowther.

"It must be six years or more ago." "Australia's a big place," observed Sir Beverley.
Crowther's slow smile appeared.

"Yes, sir, it is.

It's so mighty big that it makes all the other places of the world seem small.