As his eyes wandered downwards, his first expression of incredulity gave way to one of suppressed amusement.
"Why, Mr.Norgate," he exclaimed, as he laid it down, "do you mean to seriously accuse these people of being engaged in any sort of league against us ?" "Most certainly I do," Norgate insisted.
"But the thing is ridiculous!" Mr.Tyritt declared.

"There are names here of princes, of bankers, of society women, many of them wholly and entirely English, some of them household names.

You expect me to believe that these people are all linked together in what amounts to a conspiracy to further the cause of Germany at the expense of the country in which they live, to which they belong ?" Norgate picked up his hat.
"I expect you to believe nothing, Mr.Tyritt," he said drily.

"Sorry I troubled you." "Not at all," Mr.Tyritt protested, the slight irritation passing from his manner.

"Such a visit as yours is an agreeable break in my routine work.