I believe I gasped.

'Don't you remember Tom Rufus,' Jack asked, 'who used to play the female part at the Cambridge A.D.C.?
Why, you helped me to choose his wig at Fox's.

I have a photograph of him in costume somewhere at home.

You might recall him by his trick of sitting with his hands clasped behind his head.' I shook Rufus's hand.

I went in to dinner, and probably behaved myself.