He was quite blind and had been obliged to ask a stranger to call a cab for him as he could not find his way through the streets.

He then gave me a cheque for the rent.

I reminded him that the rent was not due until the twenty-fifth, but he said he wished to pay it now.

He also gave me some money to pay one or two small bills that were owing to some of the tradespeople--a milk-man, a baker and a stationer.
"'This struck me as very strange, because he had always managed his business and paid the tradespeople himself.

He told me that the fog had irritated his eye so that he could hardly read, and he was afraid he should soon be quite blind.