"The pension in the Porte de Schaerbeck?"
"Yes."
"The youth—black eyes, black hair, high forehead, projecting chin, height five feet three?"
"Yes."
"Spoke English well?"
"Remarkably well for a foreigner—and so young."
"Had a slight impediment in pronouncing the letter p."
"Yes, I tried to correct the dear boy of the habit."
"Did, eh?"
"I did, and with some success too."