"I wonder if she knew that I was about?
That would give her a zest for the job." "She knows that you were at Braster at the time," I said.

"It was the night of your lecture." Ray began to blow out dense clouds of smoke.
"We're safe," he said thoughtfully, "both of us.

There's just a link in the chain missing." "The police have been here with a warrant in search of that link," I remarked.
"They'll never find it, for it's in my pocket," he remarked grimly.
"Colonel Ray," I said, suddenly nerving myself to risk his anger, "there is a question which I must ask you." I saw his lips come firmly together.

He neither encouraged nor checked me.
"Who was that man ?" "You are better ignorant." "Was it my father ?" If he did not answer my question, it at least seemed to suggest something to him.
"Has that woman been here ?" he asked.
"Yes." "She believes that it was your father ?" "She does." He removed his pipe from his teeth and looked at it thoughtfully.
"Ah!" he said.
"You have not answered my question," I reminded him.
"Nor am I going to," he replied coolly.

"You know already as much as is good for you." He rose and threw open the door of my cottage.