For instance-- "There's been a mistake about the so-called death of Priam Farll." "A mistake!" she would exclaim, all ears and eyes.
Then he would say-- "Yes.

Priam Farll isn't really dead.

It's his valet that's dead." Whereupon she would burst out-- "But _you_ were his valet!" Whereupon he would simply shake his head, and she would steam forwards-- "Then who are you ?" Whereupon he would say, as calmly as he could-- "I'm Priam Farll.

I'll tell you precisely how it all happened." Thus the talk might happen.

Thus it would happen, immediately he began.
But, as at the Dean's door in Dean's Yard, so now, he could not begin.
He could not utter the necessary words aloud.