But Thorndyke was not to be drawn.
"I am submitting the problem for solution by my learned friend," he replied with an exasperating smile, and then added: "I don't say that you and Polton are wrong; only that I don't agree with you.

Perhaps you had better make a note of the properties of this object, and consider it at your leisure when you are ruminating on the other data referring to the Blackmore case." "My ruminations," I said, "always lead me back to the same point." "But you mustn't let them," he replied.

"Shuffle your data about.

Invent hypotheses.

Never mind if they seem rather wild.