"My wife and Nita told me all about it, and of course it settles one point satisfactorily. It places beyond doubt that you are really Johann Lassen. Nevertheless I could wish it had been established in a less dramatic and embarrassing fashion for you."
"It was exceedingly unpleasant, sir."
"Tell me all about it."
I described it from my point of view; making much of my profound astonishment and my inability to say whether the story was true or not.
"Have you any reason to doubt it? Did you remember anything which enabled you, I mean?"
"Not a thing. So far as I know, I never saw the woman before in all my life."
"But she was positive?"
"She embraced me and called me her 'long lost darling,' and so on."
"Women are hysterical creatures, we know, and apt to make any sort of statement at such moments. Do you think she was really in earnest? Of course it's important."
"Your people could judge that as well as I, sir."