Alec

There was no one but Alec Fairbairn whose step she could have mistaken for mine.

I would have spared her, perhaps, for all my madness, but she threw her arms round him, crying out to him, and calling him ‘Alec.’

Mr. Cunningham saw him from the bedroom window, and Mr. Alec Cunningham saw him from the back passage.

It was quarter to twelve when the alarm broke out. Mr. Cunningham had just got into bed, and Mr. Alec was smoking a pipe in his dressing-gown.

Mr. Alec ran down to see what was the matter.

There was no powder-blackening on the clothes. Evidently, therefore, Alec Cunningham had lied when he said that the two men were struggling when the shot was fired.

Tom is Alec Baldwin's neighbour.

Her calmness, her ordinariness solaced, as well as the fact that she was a woman. He questioned her minutely about Alec and what she thought he needed, without listening to her replies. It was only her reassuring voice he needed.