Dauvray--eh?
Yes, very interesting.

Just as much patience, just as much effort, just as much planning for this small end as a general uses to defeat an army--and, at the last, nothing gained.
What else is politics?
Yes, very interesting." His eyes rested upon Wethermill's face for a moment, but they gave the young man no hope.

He took a key from his pocket.
"We need not keep this room locked," he said.

"We know all that there is to be known." And he inserted the key into the lock of Celia's room and turned it.
"But is that wise, monsieur ?" said Besnard.
Hanaud shrugged his shoulders.
"Why not ?" he asked.
"The case is in your hands," said the Commissaire.

To Ricardo the proceedings seemed singularly irregular.