Sometimes I have felt inclined to be judge as well as investigator--especially in the East." "And you followed your inclination," said Mr.Manley with amiable certainty.
"Perhaps--perhaps not," said Mr.Flexen, smiling at him.
"The war has upset everything.

I never heard such ideas before the war," grumbled the lawyer.
There was a silence as Holloway brought in the coffee and cigars.
When he had gone, Mr.Flexen said in an almost fretful tone: "It's an extraordinary thing that Lord Loudwater kept so few papers." "I don't know," said Mr.Manley carelessly.

"During the six months I've been here we were never stuck for want of a paper.

He seemed to me to have kept all that were necessary." "It's the destroying of his pass-books that seems so odd to me," said the lawyer.

"A man must often want to know how he spent his money in a given year." "I'm sure I never want to," said Mr.Manley.