We excited no comment whatever.
"What will he do?
What is his purpose ?" Scharnhoff asked me after a while.

"If a man is in danger of death, he likes to know the reason--the purpose of it." I had a better than faint glimmering of Grim's purpose, but saw no necessity to air my views on the subject.
"I'm amused," said I, "at the strictly unofficial status of all this.

You see, I'm no more connected with this administration than you are.

I'm as alien as you.

You might say, I'm a stranger in Jerusalem.