Begun with a pipe, and them things would seem sort of kindergarten, I'm afraid.

No offense meant, you understand.

It's all accordin' to what you've been used to.

Well, about the questions.

Here's the first one: Don't it seem to you that the right one to pay for the doctorin' and nursin' and such of Mr.Moriarty--that's Annie's pa--ought to be the feller who hurt him?
That feller, instead of Caroline ?" "Sure thing! If you know who did it, he's your mark." "He could be held responsible, couldn't he ?" "Certainly." "Um-hm.