Jimmie nodded and touched the man's arm.
“Come,” said he.
“Yes, please take him off! What the dickens does he want?” said Mr. Hardacre.
Stone turned his burning eyes upon him.
“I have come to find an infamous seducer,” he replied, with a melodramatic intensity that would have been ludicrous had his face not been so ghastly. “His name is Rendell.”
There was a shiver of interest in the crowd.
“Was sagt er?” the princess whispered to her neighbour.
Jimmie again tried to lead Stone away, but the distraught creature seemed lost in thought and looked at him fixedly.
“I have seen you before,” he said at last.
“Of course you have,” said Jimmie. “In Hyde Park. Don't you remember?”