That reply encouraged him to proceed with what he had to say.
"When you recovered from your fainting-fit," he began, "Mr. John Zant asked questions, of course?""He asked what could possibly have happened, in such a quiet place as Kensington Gardens, to make me faint.""And how did you answer?"
"Answer? I couldn't even look at him!"
"You said nothing?"
"Nothing. I don't know what he thought of me; he might have been surprised, or he might have been offended.""Is he easily offended?" Mr. Rayburn asked.
"Not in my experience of him."
