"You know how the papers are roasting the department just now.

For every little slip, we get the harpoon or the laugh.

I'll be obliged to you if you don't say anything that'll let this thing get into the papers." "Believe me, Lieutenant, I shall do everything in my power to protect you," Mr.Pyecroft assured him.

"And now, since the matter is settled," he added pleasantly, "perhaps you'd like to have Matilda show you the way out.

These upper hallways are really very confusing.
Matilda, my dear,--if you don't mind." Wordlessly, Matilda obeyed, and four sets of policemen's feet went heavily down the stairs.