"Now tell me, Norgate, you showed this list down there ?"--jerking his head towards the street.
"I did," Norgate admitted.
"And what did they say ?" "Just what you might expect men whose lives are spent within the four walls of a room in Downing Street to say," Norgate replied.

"You are half inclined to make fun of me yourself, Hebblethwaite, but at any rate I know you have a different outlook from theirs.

Old Carew was frantically polite.

He even declared the list to be most interesting! He rambled on for about a quarter of an hour on the general subject of the spy mania.

German espionage, he told me, was one of the shadowy evils from which England had suffered for generations.