It was as if he were recalling some happy memory.
"How do I know it ?" he asked by way of preface.

"If you'll listen for a moment, I'll tell you.

If you want more proof, when I've done, you must be difficult to please.

When I was up at Moulmein six months ago, I came across a man I hadn't met for several years.

He was a Frenchman, who I knew had spent the most of his life away back in Burmah.