But I'll be damned if I know what yours is.

I don't believe you know yourselves.

You'll never get anything by it." "Meantime it's you who get something from it--so far.

And you get it easily, too.

I won't speak of your salary, but haven't you made your name simply by not understanding what we are after ?" "What are you after, then ?" asked Chief Inspector Heat, with scornful haste, like a man in a hurry who perceives he is wasting his time.
The perfect anarchist answered by a smile which did not part his thin colourless lips; and the celebrated Chief Inspector felt a sense of superiority which induced him to raise a warning finger.
"Give it up--whatever it is," he said in an admonishing tone, but not so kindly as if he were condescending to give good advice to a cracksman of repute.