That little man was clean grit all through, without a soft spot in him.

One night he was very solemn.
'Say, Hannay,' he said, 'I judge I should let you a bit deeper into this business.

I should hate to go out without leaving somebody else to put up a fight.' And he began to tell me in detail what I had only heard from him vaguely.
I did not give him very close attention.

The fact is, I was more interested in his own adventures than in his high politics.

I reckoned that Karolides and his affairs were not my business, leaving all that to him.