"I do wish that.

I have never before been brought in contact with a crime of this magnitude.

It conveys a sort of personal responsibility.

To think that I was in my room, reading about aviation, while a woman's life was being choked out of her within a few feet of where I was seated! O, it is monstrous! Let me tell you two, here and now, that if I can do anything to bring Mrs.Lester's slayer to justice, you can count on me, no matter what the cost." "I'm sure you mean what you say, Mr.Theydon," said Winter soothingly.
"Well, I suppose we can do no more tonight.

I have little else to tell you--" "The skull--the ivory skull!" put in Furneaux.
For an instant an expression of annoyance flitted across the chief inspector's good-humored face.