I was saying, however, that the best way to sink one's identity is to assume another, provided that the second be as distinctive as the first.

We will leave for a moment the question of my officiousness in the matter, and we'll suppose, for the sake of argument, that I was authorized by you to do what in fact I have done.
All last week the papers were literally full of your trial, but on Saturday there was a second sensation as well, and this morning it is hard to say which is first and which second; they both occupy so many columns.

You may not know it, but the Cape liner due on Saturday was lost with scores of lives, off Finisterre, on Friday morning last." Rachel failed to see the connection, and yet she felt vaguely that there was one, if she could but recall it; meanwhile she said nothing, but listened with as much attention as a mental search would permit.
"I heard of it first," continued Steel, "late on Friday afternoon, as I came away from the Old Bailey.

Now, it was on Friday afternoon, if you recollect, that you gave evidence yourself in your own defence.

When you left the witness-box, Mrs.Minchin, and even before you left it, I knew that you were saved!" Rachel remembered the Swiss maid's remark about the loss of her clothes and the number of persons who had fared so much worse and lost their lives.