I had no personal quarrel with you.

You can scarcely blame me, therefore, if I retaliate when I have an opportunity.

I don't know what you may think of it, but the mere fact of you dining with me to-night is very likely to go hard with you, so far as your clients are concerned.

Would it be a good advertisement for the famous George Fairfax to have it known that, while he was taking his clients' money he was dining pleasantly in Paris with the man they were paying him to find?
I laid my trap for you, but I must confess that I had not very much faith in its success.

Your experience should have made you more wary.