"Macallan ?" he said.

"Macallan?
Where have I heard that name?
Why does it sound as if it wasn't strange to me ?" He gave up pursuing the lost recollection, and asked, very earnestly, what he could do for me.

I answered that he could help me, in the first place, to put an end to the doubt--an unendurable doubt to _me_--whether I were lawfully married or not.

His energy of the old days when he had conducted my father's business showed itself again the moment I said those words.
"Your carriage is at the door, my dear," he answered.

"Come with me to my own lawyer, without wasting another moment." We drove to Lincoln's Inn Fields.
At my request Benjamin put my case to the lawyer as the case of a friend in whom I was interested.