R. finished and looked at Ashenden with a gleam in his close-set eyes. "Dramatic, isn't it?" he asked. "Do you mean to say that happened the other day?" "The week before last." "Impossible," cried Ashenden. "Why, we've been putting that incident on the stage for sixty years, we've written it in a thousand novels. Do you mean to say that life has only just caught up with us?"
