"We cannot keep Engleton shut up for ever.

I grant you that that is impossible.

But if he declines to behave like a reasonable person, we can threaten him with an alternative which I do not think he would have the courage to face." "You mean ?" Cecil gasped.
"I mean," Forrest answered, "what your grandfather would have told him, or your great grandfather, in half a dozen words weeks ago.

At full tide there is sea enough to drown a dozen such as he within a few yards of where he lies.

Why should we keep him carefully and safe, knowing that the moment he steps back into life you and I are doomed men ?" Cecil drew a little breath and lifted his hand to his forehead.