There was something unpleasant in the business--not exactly in Fox himself, but the kind of thing.

I wish he would cease his explanations--I didn't want to hear them.

I have never wanted to know how things are worked; preferring to take the world at its face value.

Callan's revelations had been bearable, because of the farcical pompousness of his manner.

But this was different, it had the stamp of truth, perhaps because it was a little dirty.