Don't you be too English.

And in this particular instance, don't be absurd.

The evil is already here.

We don't want prevention--we want cure." He paused, turned to the desk, and turning over some papers lying there, spoke in a changed business-like tone, without looking at Mr Verloc.
"You know, of course, of the International Conference assembled in Milan ?" Mr Verloc intimated hoarsely that he was in the habit of reading the daily papers.

To a further question his answer was that, of course, he understood what he read.