“Well—almost at once.”
“Almost at once. Then, I take it, you were very well known to each other twenty or twenty-two years ago?”
“We were—yes, well known to each other.”
“Close friends?”
“I said we were acquaintances.”
“Acquaintances. What was his name when you knew him at that time?”
“His name? It was—Marbury.”
“Marbury—the same name. Where did you know him?”
“I—oh, here in London.”
“What was he?”