"Now I come to think of it, I had much better have spent my time on that investigation than on that tedious journey to the South Pole.

All the same, I'm deucedly sorry for that woman, Victoire.

She looks such a good soul." Guerchard shrugged his shoulders: "The prisons are full of good souls," he said, with cynical wisdom born of experience.

"They get caught so much more often than the bad." "It seems rather mean of Lupin to make use of women like this, and get them into trouble," said the Duke.
"But he doesn't," said Guerchard quickly.

"At least he hasn't up to now.