My lawyer told me, directly after he had briefed you, that, although it would make no real difference to your pleading, it would be just as well for me to keep up my bluff of being innocent, even in private conversation with you.

Why was that ?" "For the very obvious reason," Francis told him, "that we are not all such rogues and vagabonds as you seem to think.

There is more satisfaction to me, at any rate, in saving an innocent man's life than a guilty one's." Hilditch laughed as though amused.
"Come," he threatened, "I am going to be ill-natured.

You have shown signs of smugness, a quality which I detest.

I am going to rob you of some part of your self-satisfaction.