I unfolded my paper and began reading.
"Perhaps, after all," not the least perturbed by my insolence, "it were best to state on paper what I have to say.

I can readily appreciate that the encounter is disagreeable.

To meet one who has made a thing impossible to you sets the nerves on edge." He caught up his opera hat, his cane and gloves.

He raised the lapel of his coat and sniffed at the orchid in the buttonhole.
Some occult force bade me say, "Why do you wish to know who she was ?" He sat down again.

"I shall be pleased to explain.