"I--er--I don't understand you." "Yes, you do.

I want my things, and I want them at once!" "I haven't got your things, and you needn't say I have!" retorted the money-lender's son.

"Oh, I see how it is," he added, struck by a sudden thought.

"You want to play another joke on me, don't you?
Well, it won't work this time.

I didn't touch your things, and you know it.".