His face, too, was quite expressionless.

Yet his tone, when he spoke, seemed to have taken to itself a note of sternness.
"If you had chosen," he said slowly, "to have become my ally in this matter, to have ranged yourself altogether on the side of the law, my answer would have been ready enough.

What you have told me, however, you have told me against your will and not in actual words.

You have told me in such a way, too," he added, "that it is impossible for me to doubt your intention to mislead me.

I am forced to conclude that we stand on opposite sides of the way.