I was trying to forget them! Against my heart, gnawing into my soul like the beetle of the Spanish Inquisition!" Silence.

"But they were future bread and butter--for Gregor as well as for myself.

They got them, and may they damn Karlov as they have damned me! I had no chance when I returned to Gregor's.

They were on me instantly.

I put up a fight, but I'd come from a lighted room and was practically blind.