“Then was he, at this time, engaged in the shop in the Holloway Road?” I asked, feeling that this fact should be at once cleared up.
“I think so.”
“Are you absolutely certain?”
“No, I’m not. Why do you ask?”
“Because,” I answered reflectively, “because it is strange that you should have taken an engagement at the very shop where he was employed.”
“It was he who gave me the introduction there,” she said. “Only when I got there and commenced work did I find to my surprise that the man who had interested himself on my behalf was actually the shop-walker. He saw the look of surprise upon my face, and laughed heartily over it.”
“Did you never seek to inquire how long previously he had been employed there?”
“No. It never occurred to me to do so,” she answered.
“But you can discover now easily enough, I suppose?”
“Of course I can,” she replied. “But why are you so anxious to know?”