Something has happened that may have very unpleasant consequences, and you are the only person that can help me; you will know how.

I really did mean to be careful, just as my father bade me, and not do anything out of the way, and particularly not make a noise.

You will not think that I did wrong to select the best of the mottoes.

You know you said yourself that though we had no tyrants ourselves, yet, where there were any, it was a splendid verse.

I cannot explain it all exactly, but we were taken by surprise in the middle of a perfectly harmless meeting.