“I don’t like it,” he said, “I don’t like it at all. It’s not seemly. It might have been very serious.”

Then a new suspicion darkened his countenance.

“I suppose I may assume,” he said, “that you’ve had them replaced?”

I bowed reassuringly.

“By a tailor in Enfield,” I said, “who was incidentally a great admirer of you.”

His face cleared a little.

Mr. Chrysostom Lorton

“Eh, what?” he said. “An admirer, you say? What was his name?”

I informed him and he nodded his head.