"Well," answered the man, scarcely looking round.
"And what have you been about ever since?" asked Tony.
"Many things," replied Paul Watson.
"You have been down at the Lady Catherine's, I hear," continued Tony, "in your old haunts, Master Watson. I dare say you enjoyed yourself mightily."
"Yes," answered his companion.
"Was Sir William down there then?" continued Tony, with a careless manner.
Paul Watson nodded his head.
"I wonder what is his object in going about with our lord here, after letting him wander so many years by himself," said Tony, musingly.
"Don't know," replied Paul Watson.
"What was he about so long down there?" was Tony's next question; and to this he got the only satisfactory answer he had yet received.