You know it.

Is it likely I should ?" Mr.Taynton apparently had no reply to this.

But he had a question to ask.
"Why are you taking up this hostile and threatening attitude ?" "I have not meant to be hostile, and I have certainly not threatened," replied Mills.

"I have put before you, quite dispassionately I hope, certain facts.

Indeed I should say it was you who had threatened in the matter of those letters, which, unhappily, have never existed at all.