I want your authority to give him such assurances of personal safety as I may think proper." "Certainly," said the Personage on the hearthrug.

"Find out as much as you can; find it out in your own way." "I must set about it without loss of time, this very evening," said the Assistant Commissioner.
Sir Ethelred shifted one hand under his coat tails, and tilting back his head, looked at him steadily.
"We'll have a late sitting to-night," he said.

"Come to the House with your discoveries if we are not gone home.

I'll warn Toodles to look out for you.

He'll take you into my room." The numerous family and the wide connections of the youthful-looking Private Secretary cherished for him the hope of an austere and exalted destiny.