Put it into figures." "Five hundred pounds; seven hundred; a thousand if need be." "It will not cost you a thousand, and it may come to more than five hundred.

Place the thousand to my credit, and I shall return what is left.

I must go at once to Paris and carry out my plans from that city." "Then you have thought out a scheme.

What is it ?" "I have not only thought it out, but most of the arrangements are already made.

I cannot say more about it.