Think of the good you'll do." "Where you get such rascally ideas from, I can't think," mused the invalid.

"Your father is a straightforward, honest man, and your partner's uprightness is the talk of Sunwich." "It doesn't take much to make Sunwich talk," retorted Hardy.
"A preposterous suggestion to make to a man of my standing," said the shipbroker, ignoring the remark.

"If the affair ever leaked out I should never hear the end of it." "It can't leak out," said Hardy, "and if it does there is no direct evidence.

They will never really know until you die; they can only suspect." "Very well," said the shipbroker, with a half-indulgent, half-humorous glance.

"Anything to get rid of you.