"You were at the opera this evening?"
"I was."
"There was a party in Box C?"
"Yes, sir."
Jack observed that there came a glitter to the young man's eyes, and a slight color to his cheeks as he answered:
"I was."
"The parties in that box were the Richards family?"
"Yes, but I do not know how the fact concerns either you or me."
"It may concern you, my young friend. What do you know about the Richards family?"
"Nothing save in a social way, sir."