"When did you view this property, Mr. Bunce? I understand you come from London."
"I saw it this morning, sir."
"Did you make any calculation as to its value before you saw it?"
This puzzled him, and he stared at me. It was a hard stare, but I held out.
He said, "No."
"Not when you were travelling? Did it not pass through your mind when you were in the train, for instance—'I wonder, now, what that property is worth?'"
"I dare say it did, sir."
"But don't dare say anything unless it's true."
"I did, then, run it over in my mind."
"And I dare say you made notes and can produce them. Did you make notes?" After a while I said, "I see you did. You may as well let me have them."