“But he was expected home last night, I believe.”
The maid looked a little staggered.
“He ain’t been,” she replied.
“I happen to have heard that he called here,” he hazarded again.
This time she was evidently put about.
“He ain’t been here—as I knows of.”
He slipped half-a-crown into her hand.
“Think again,” he said, in his most winning accents.
The poor little maid was obviously in a dilemma.
“Do you want him particular, sir?”