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80  Yes. Sorry to bring you down, but before you go to bed I find I must ask you a few questions.  [Watchfully.] My headache has become worse, sir. Can the matter wait until morning?  I regret it cannot. But I shall make it as easy for you as possible, and perhaps in a few minutes you will be able to clear up my difficulty.

 Difficulty?  Sit down, please. [She sits.] You may remember that when you arrived this afternoon a gentleman was with me. Did you know who he was?  I—I didn't look at him sir.  He was the Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, and on going out he said he thought he had seen you before.  But that—that is quite impossible, sir.  Since you went upstairs he has been back, and made rather a serious accusation.