I had to remember how near I'd been to it myself." This speech sounded very pretty though somewhat illogical.
"And pray how did you know that they had called in my assistance ?" "Because I kept my eyes on them.

I know Mr.Kitwater of old, you see.

I watched them go into your office and come out from a shop on the other side of the street." The whole mystery was now explained.

What an amount of trouble I should have been spared had I only known this before?
"You did not approve then of my being imported into the case ?" "I distinctly disapproved," he answered.

"I know your reputation, of course, and I began to see that if you took up their case for them I should in all probability have to climb down." "It is doubtless for that reason you called upon me, representing yourself to be Mr.Bayley, Managing Director of that South American Mining Company?
I can now quite understand your motive.