"If I mistake not you are the brother of the United States Consul at Christchurch, and came over to his wedding."
"Yes," he admitted; for he did not see how he could well deny to one man what he had just confessed to another.
"You have been in England about ten days, I think?"
"As long as that, certainly."
"May I ask what ship you came on?"
"By what right do you ask me these questions?"
"You will see presently."
"But suppose I refuse to answer them?"
The unknown shrugged his shoulders, and said quietly:
"Now wasn't it the Paris?"