"Yes."
"Originally from Switzerland."
Basil's hazard of the stranger's precise nationality now took definite form.
"As you are," he said.
"As I am," said the stranger, "and as Anthony Bidaud is."
"You are right in your surmise. He is from Switzerland."
"My surmise? Ah? He has a fine estate here."
"He has."
"But his wife--she is dead."
"That is so, unhappily."