"You say you want to be my friend, yet you seem to think I am a kleptomaniac.

I can't imagine what I should want with any dry old document out of the Foreign Office, can you ?" "Yes, I can imagine," said Godensky drily.
"Pray tell me then.

Also what document it was.

For, joking apart, this is rather a serious accusation." "If I make any accusation, it's less against you than du Laurier." "Oh, you make an accusation against him.

Why do you make it to me ?" "As a warning." "Or because you don't dare make it to anyone else." "Dare! I haven't accused him thus far, because to do so would brand your name with his." "Ah!" I said.