"How many times have I not risked it?
By the way," impressed by a sudden thought, "are you the Englishman every one seems to be expecting ?" "Yes." Fitzgerald knocked his pipe against the railing.

"I am the man.
Worse luck! Was any one near when you called me by name ?" "Only one of those wooden gendarmes." "Only one of those wooden gendarmes!" ironically.

"Only one of those dogs who have been at my heels ever since I arrived.

And he, having heard, has gone back to his master.

Well, since you have started the ball rolling, it is no more than fair that you should see the game to its end." "What's it all about ?" asked Maurice, his astonishment growing and growing.
"Where are your rooms ?" "You have something important to tell me ?" "Perhaps you may think so.