You can't expect me to be going about burgling houses on the word of a blagyird laddie.

I'm a respectable man--aye been.

Besides, I'm here for a holiday, and I've no call to be mixing myself up in strangers' affairs." "You haven't.

Only you see, I think there's a friend of mine in that place, and anyhow there are women in trouble.

If you like, we'll say goodbye after breakfast, and you can continue as if you had never turned aside to this damned peninsula.