They give the place a better tone, don't you know.

There's two clergyman's sisters come here most autumns and stop and stop and don't notice anything.

They come in here and chat with me, and once they said they liked foreign gentlemen better than their own fellow-countrymen: 'their manners are so _affable_.' Why it was partly through people like that, that I got to hear every now and then what _you_ was up to.

Oh, I wasn't taken in long by that David Williams business.

Praddy didn't give you away--to speak of, when I sent you that thousand pounds--Lord, I was glad you kept it! But what fixed me was your portrait in the _Daily Mirror_ a couple of years ago as 'the Brilliant young Advocate, Mr.David Vavasour Williams.' Somehow the 'Vavasour' seemed to fit in all right, though what you wanted with my--ahem--maiden name, with what was pore mother's _reel_ name, before she lived with your grandfather--Well as I say, I soon saw through the whole bag o' tricks--But _what_ a lark! Beat anythink _I_ ever did.