"In all your present acts and surroundings there is a scientific attempt at secrecy.

I have an aunt who lived over a shop, but this is the first time I have found people living from preference under a public-house.

You have a heavy iron door.
You cannot pass it without submitting to the humiliation of calling yourself Mr.Chamberlain.You surround yourself with steel instruments which make the place, if I may say so, more impressive than homelike.
May I ask why, after taking all this trouble to barricade yourselves in the bowels of the earth, you then parade your whole secret by talking about anarchism to every silly woman in Saffron Park ?" Gregory smiled.
"The answer is simple," he said.

"I told you I was a serious anarchist, and you did not believe me.

Nor do they believe me.