"Just as well you were in the room, though." "Surrounded by mysteries, aren't you, old chap ?" Richard yawned, lighting a cigarette.
"I don't know exactly about that," Hunterleys replied, "but I'll tell you one thing, Lane.

There are things going on in Monte Carlo at the present moment which would bring out the black headlines on the halfpenny papers if they had an inkling of them.

There are people here who are trying to draw up a new map of Europe, a new map of the world." Richard shook his head.
"I can't get interested in anything, Hunterleys," he declared.

"You could tell me the most amazing things in the world and they'd pass in at one ear and out at the other.

Kind of a blithering idiot, eh?
You know what I did last night after dinner.