"Your going away for a trifle after all the years you've been here was a silly business." "Thank you, sir," said Hutchings gratefully.
When Hutchings had gone, Mr.Flexen said: "It's all very well your talking, but it was you who suggested that Lady Loudwater was a woman of strong primitive emotions with a strain of Italian blood in her." "I never suggested for a moment that she was a woman of _primitive_ emotions," Mr.Manley protested with some vehemence.
"But the emotions of all women are primitive," said Mr.Flexen.
"Not the emotion excited in them by beauty," said Mr.Manley with chivalrous warmth.

"And, hang it all! Does she look like a woman to commit murder ?" "Not on her own account, certainly," said Mr.Flexen.
"And on whose account should she commit murder ?" cried Mr.Manley.
Mr.Flexen shrugged his shoulders.
"I said you knew ten times as much about the business as I do," said Mr.
Manley in a tone of triumph..