"If you had been, would you have pretended to recognise me upstairs just now? I tell you, pal, I was all in for a second, till you gave me the high sign."
Jimmy laughed.
"It would have been awkward for you if I really had been Jimmy Crocker, wouldn't it?"
"And it would have been awkward for you if I had really been Lord Wisbeach."
"Who are you, by the way?"
"The boys call me Gentleman Jack."
"Why?" asked Jimmy, surprised.
Lord Wisbeach ignored the question.
"I'm working with Burke's lot just now. Say, let's be sensible about this. I'll be straight with you, straight as a string."
"Did you say string or spring?"