You wanted to get me out of the way in order that I might not hunt you?
Is that not so ?" "You hit the nail upon the head exactly.

But you were virtuous, and would not swallow the bait.

It would have simplified matters from my point of view if you had.

I should not have been compelled to waste my money upon those two roughs, nor would you have spent an exceedingly uncomfortable quarter of an hour in that doorway in Holywell street." This was news indeed.

So he had been aware of my presence there?
I put the question to him.
"Oh! Yes! I knew you were there," he said with a laugh.