"We've never been close friends, Fabian.
We've always been at sixes and sevens, and yet I feel you'd rather do me a good turn than a bad one.

Let me ask you this--that you'll not believe anything bad of me till you've heard what I've got to say.

Will you do that ?" Fabian nodded.

"Of course.

But if I were you, I wouldn't bet on myself, Carnac.