What does it all mean?
It's all very well to shrug your shoulders, but when there are eighteen arrests within one week on a charge of espionage, there must be something up." For the first time Reginald Kinsley seemed inclined to discuss the subject seriously.

He drew the paper towards him and read the little paragraph, word by word.

Then he gave some further order to an attentive maitre d'hotel and glanced around to be sure that they were not overheard.
"Look here, Dick, old chap," he said, "you are just back from abroad and you are not quite in the hang of things yet.

Let me ask you a plain question.

What do you think of us all ?" "Think of you ?" Hamel repeated, a little doubtfully.