D' youse get me ?" Being assured that they got him, Elmer downheartedly withdrew.
"At any rate," continued Lady Agatha, "there was that terrible box upon my sitting-room floor, and there were those two degraded wretches.

The callous beasts stood above the box apparently quite insensible to the ethical enormity of their crime.

But they were keen enough to see that it might be used as a lever with which to force more money from me.
For when I demanded that they take the box away with them and dispose of it, they only laughed at me.

They said that they had had enough of that box.

They had delivered the goods--that was the phrase they used--and they wanted more money.