"Private matters.

I've no doubt I can throw some light--some!--on this Wrychester Paradise affair.
But, as I said just now, I'll only deal with the principal.

I wouldn't tell you, for instance--as your principal's solicitor." The solicitor smiled again.
"Your ideas, Mr.Glassdale, appear to fit in with our principal's," he remarked.

"His instructions--strict instructions--to us are that if anybody turns up who can give any information, it's not to be given to us, but to--himself!" "Wise man!" observed Glassdale.

"That's just what I feel about it.