Were your friend and the lady--at some time in the present year--traveling together in Scotland ?" "No." "Living together in Scotland ?" "No." "What _were_ they doing together in Scotland ?" "Well--they were meeting each other at an inn." "Oh?
They were meeting each other at an inn.

Which was first at the rendezvous ?" "The woman was first.

Stop a bit! We are getting to it now." He produced from his pocket the written memorandum of Arnold's proceedings at Craig Fernie, which he had taken down from Arnold's own lips.

"I've got a bit of note here," he went on.

"Perhaps you'd like to have a look at it ?" Sir Patrick took the note--read it rapidly through to himself--then re-read it, sentence by sentence, to Geoffrey; using it as a text to speak from, in making further inquiries.
"'He asked for her by the name of his wife, at the door,'" read Sir Patrick.