We could never confess to him." "I must do my work in my own way," declared the Chief Inspector.

"When it comes to that I would deal with the devil himself, and take the consequences.

There are things not fit for everybody to know." "Your idea of secrecy seems to consist in keeping the chief of your department in the dark.

That's stretching it perhaps a little too far, isn't it?
He lives over his shop ?" "Who--Verloc?
Oh yes.

He lives over his shop.