You deserve it.

It would be the proudest moment of your life." Then the barrister laughed.
"You have known me for years, Winter," he said, "yet you believe that.

Go to! You are incorrigible!" The detective did not trouble to extract the exact meaning from this remark.

He understood that Brett would never think of entering the witness-box.

That was all he wanted to know.
"Are you quite certain," he asked, with a last tinge of anxiety in his voice, "that Ooma will be arrested to-day ?" "Quite certain, if we can accomplish that highly desirable task." Winter pounded the door of the hansom with his clenched fist "Then it is done!" he cried.