In a moment Ossipon found his tongue.
"The police! Do you mean to say the police came already?
That Chief Inspector Heat himself actually came to tell you." "Yes," she confirmed in the same listless tone.

"He came just like this.
He came.

I didn't know.

He showed me a piece of overcoat, and--just like that.

Do you know this?
he says." "Heat! Heat! And what did he do ?" Mrs Verloc's head dropped.