"No! I only know you b'longs to the gentry tribe that are always down on poor chaps like us."
"You are mistaken there, Perks; I am Benny Bates."
"You!" he said in astonishment, eyeing him from head to foot. "Then you must 'ave got mighty 'igh in the perfeshun. I could never dress like that."
"I am not in the profession, as you call it," said Benny.
"Not in it?"
"No."
"Do you mean to say you've kep' honest all these years?"
"Yes, I have."
"An' kep' in Liverpool?"
"No." And Benny told him where he had been.