six-forty-eight

Updated: May 1, 2025

"What do you know of the servants here?" asked the inspector of the constable. "Not much, sir. Six-forty-eight walks out with the cook, I've heard. She's a respectable woman. Her father's a lighterman at Kew Bridge. I know 'em all here by sight, of course. But there's nothing against them, to my knowledge, and I've been a constable in this sub-division for eighteen years."

William Le Queux - The Seven Secrets