You aren't going out any more this evening." Mr Verloc intimated by morose grunts and signs that his feet were not wet, and that anyhow he did not care.

The proposal as to slippers was disregarded as beneath his notice.

But the question of going out in the evening received an unexpected development.

It was not of going out in the evening that Mr Verloc was thinking.

His thoughts embraced a vaster scheme.