But how had she identified him?
"I didn't really expect you," said the lady, always with a slight Cockney accent.

"But I thought how silly it would be for me to miss the vanishing trick just because you couldn't come.

So in I went, by myself." "Why didn't you expect me ?" he asked diffidently.
"Well," she said, "Mr.Farll being dead, I knew you'd have a lot to do, besides being upset like." "Oh yes," he said quickly, feeling that he must be more careful; for he had quite forgotten that Mr.Farll was dead.

"How did you know ?" "How did I know!" she cried.

"Well, I like that! Look anywhere! It's all over London, has been these six hours." She pointed to a ragged man who was wearing an orange-coloured placard by way of apron.