I replied that I was just a good bourgeois enjoying his holiday.

Still it is difficult quite to forget one's profession.

It was the Commissaire of Police who came to me, and naturally I talked with him for a little while.

The case is dark, monsieur, I warn you." "How dark ?" asked Harry Wethermill.
"I will tell you," said Hanaud, drawing his chair still closer to the young man.

"Understand this in the first place.