"Have you seen them since?"
"No."
"Would you know them if they were shown you?"
"I would know them if they unlocked our front door."
"But you would not know them on sight?"
"I don't think so."
"Mr. Van Burnam, it is disagreeable for me to go into family matters, but if you have had no quarrel with your brother, how comes it that you and he have had so little intercourse of late?"
"He has been in Connecticut and I at Long Branch. Is not that a good answer, sir?"
"Good, but not good enough. You have a common office in New York, have you not?"
"Certainly, the firm's office."