"Be so good as to pass this to father," he said, handing the paper to Alice.
Alice inspected the document.

It was a certificate of the marriage of Henry Leek, valet, and Sarah Featherstone, spinster, at a registry office in Paddington.

Priam also inspected it.

This was one of Leek's escapades! No revelations as to the past of Henry Leek would have surprised him.

There was nothing to be done except to give a truthful denial of identity and to persist in that denial.