‘Morning of course—I walked out of—the house—’
‘Your aunt’s house?’
‘Yes, of course, my aunt’s house. Do let me go on with my story. It was getting a little dark—’
‘Getting dark at nine in the morning?’
‘In the evening, I said.’
‘I beg your pardon, I thought you said the morning.’
‘No, no, the evening; and of course I was a little frightened, for I was not accustomed—’
‘But you were never out alone at that hour,—in London?’
‘Yes, I was quite alone. I had promised to meet—a friend at the corner of——You know that part, do you?’
‘I beg your pardon. What part?’