You've ruined yourself, Charlie; and you're going to draw me into this dreadful crime, also, in spite of all I can do!" "Bah! don't be a fool," he observed, calmly taking a chair.
"Am _I_ the fool ?" she exclaimed, turning upon him fiercely.

"Did _I_ calmly perpetrate a deed that was sure to result in disgrace and defeat ?" "What on earth has happened to upset you ?" he asked, wonderingly.

"It strikes me everything is progressing beautifully." "Does it, indeed ?" was her sarcastic rejoinder.

"Then your information is better than mine.

They called me up at three o'clock this morning to enquire after Louise Merrick--as if _I_ should know her whereabouts.