Just found something odd when reading Fair Blows the Wind. Page 211 in the LT edition. Tatton is talking to Jacob Binns about investing in shipping.

"very well. Whom do I see?"
He wrote a name on a slip of paper. "This woman." Then after a paragraph where Jacob tells how a woman is the owner of ships Tatton says this.
"Her name?"
"Delahay. Emma Delahay."

Why did he ask her name when Jacob had just given him a slip of paper with her name on it?

peter